American - Musician | July 17, 1966 -
I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric.
Lou Barlow
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Most of the times that I've written break-up songs, it's been different because I was always trying to get back to something: get back to a situation or talk my way or sing my way back into the relationship.
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Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.
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I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them.
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Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry.
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For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear.
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I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had.
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It's cool to think about nursing, because a lot of people decide to go into it later in their lives. I could slip into school to be an LPN or an RN as a middle-aged man, and it wouldn't be unusual.
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I've always tried to make music for someone who's never heard anything I've ever done.
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Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.
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Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable.
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'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids' soundtrack. It did nothing. It didn't start anything for me.
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