American - Musician | July 16, 1971 -
When you accept the way things are, there's really no other way to operate than the way you've been conditioned to. You live in America: you're free to vote, you go vote, and you continue to see the problems of being a nationalistic society. You don't really know what to do because you're conditioned to feel that's just the way things are.
Ed Kowalczyk
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I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me.
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Arenas, to me, and especially sheds, are really great venues. You get that sea of humanity, but everybody can still see it and hear it. And that's really important to us.
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I've never allowed my specific personal practice or belief to be overtly integrated to the music. Because that's crossing the line into, 'We want you to think this.' And that's not what we're about.
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I always thought it odoriferous for people to go about trying to pummel others with their ideas.
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If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.
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The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It's not two separate things.
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Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it.
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You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.
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Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don't want to exclude anyone.
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With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the personality in the music. 'Throwing Copper''s mission was to begin to get some of that back.
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There's a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It's not punk, it's not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out.
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