American - Musician | November 20, 1965 -
Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to present visual information? How do you want to take the music that we're making on stage and visualize that?'
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I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.
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For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.
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The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.
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It's what happens when you've been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way.
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We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.
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London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.
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Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.
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There is an overall seriousness in tone that pervades 'To The 5 Boroughs.'
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We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were impacted by it in so many ways in terms of what we saw, what we felt, what our daily experience became in the wake of it.
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Mr. Philippe Zdar is a little bit like the uncle of the whole Daft Punk-Phoenix-Air thing in Paris and known for being in the group Cassius. It was interesting working with Philippe.
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In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world.
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