Latest Scott Walker Quotes from Interviews

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• Melodies are far more interesting. They are there, in your face, in certain sections of the songs. People do complain about the melody thing, but we do hit patches of melody and beauty, as well as the other stuff.

  Scott Walker

  Song, People, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Matching sounds in your head is made a lot easier with all the technology. It is the nonelectronic noises that are challenging, as you have to find ways of communicating those to the people you're working with.

  Scott Walker

  Technology, People, Challenges

  Source: www.believermag.com

• When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets.

  Scott Walker

  Writing, Thinking, Musical

  Interview with Erik Morse, believermag.com. July 1, 2013.

• I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

  Scott Walker

  Kids, Iran, Yellow

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I'm certainly an imperfect man. And it's only by the blood of Jesus Christ that I've been redeemed from my sins. So I know that God doesn't call me to do a specific thing, God hasn't given me a list, a Ten Commandments of things to act on the first day. What God calls us to do is follow his will. And ultimately that's what I'm going to try to do.

  Scott Walker

  Jesus, Men, Blood

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• You know, people like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government creates jobs. And one of the best things we can do is get the government out of the way, put in reign in all the out of control regulations, put in place and all of the above energy policy, give people the education, the skills that the need to succeed, and lower the tax rate and reform the tax code.

  Scott Walker

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

  Scott Walker

  Successful, Chief Executives, Chiefs

• I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.

  Scott Walker

  Believe, Party, Thinking

• The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.

  Scott Walker

  Crazy, Real, Character

  Source: collider.com

• The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

  Scott Walker

  People, Unions, Intense

• The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.

  Scott Walker

  Interesting, Used

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.

  Scott Walker

  Song, Moving, Black And White

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.

  Scott Walker

  Fall, Worry, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to.

  Scott Walker

  Play, Ideas, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

• It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

  Scott Walker

  Hard, Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

• About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.

  Scott Walker

  Want, Keyboards, Happens

  Source: pitchfork.com

• In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.

  Scott Walker

  Teenage, Years, Free Jazz

  Source: pitchfork.com