Neko Case Quotes - Page 2

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• There's not like a science to it, necessarily, but I'm also the kind of person who spends a long time in the studio. I will spend my entire advance just getting it done, which is probably stupid, but I don't have extravagant taste. I mean, I paid for it, so there you go. Why not? The recording process is also very fun.

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  Fun, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sounds like to have space sometimes. It's good to give yourself a variety, or you just fatigue your ear. Like if somebody sings in the same register all the time, or if it's got the same feel the whole way through, I just find I get fatigued, so it's nice to break it up.

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  Nice, Space, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.

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  Fishing, Voice, Singing

  "Neko Case Surges Forward with 'Flood'". "Morning Edition" with Ashley Kahn, www.npr.org. March 28, 2006.

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• It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.

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  Pressure, Sometimes, Lays

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• I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

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  Song, Writing, People

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• The only ones that stand out to me are people like Jonathan Richman or Robyn Hitchcock, who can make you totally cry while their music is so funny and they're hilarious. They know they're great but they also don't think they're better than you and they really invite you into their show.

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  Thinking, People, Cry

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• Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

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  Boss

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

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  Believe, Band, Want

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• Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

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  Home, Long, Band

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• Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

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  Kind

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• I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

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  Nervous, Stage, Feels

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• I like to think that I'm not old yet.

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  Thinking

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• There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

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  Song, Art, Touching

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• I have a hard time taking myself seriously. My band the New Pornographers doesn't take me seriously, which is why I love them. We can't stand up there and pretend. What we're doing is really important to me and it's my job and I love it, but I can't just stand there unflinchingly noble in front of the audience.

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  Hard Times, Important, Audience

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• I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other. Vanity is considered the worst possible sin. I've gotten better about having to describe things. If you're going to make a record and people are going to write about you, it's your responsibility to answer questions. It's validating - I'm just very clumsy.

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  Writing, Responsibility, People

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• I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.

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  Remember

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.

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  Divorced, Humans

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

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  Giving, Feelings, Balance

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Being in two full-time rock bands is pretty impossible. I love to tour but I have a dog and I want to see him. And, being a songwriter, you have to have experiences and do things. You can't just go on tour all the time, otherwise you get nothing to write about. It's finally at a point where the balance is perfectly right.

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  Dog, Writing, Balance

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• There are things about the production I'm not crazy about though. People mix records to be heard in cars and to have the bass incredibly loud so the vocals have to fight with everything so there's no dynamic left, and that's kind of a bummer. That may not be my taste but I'm not going to go, "Kanye's not very good," because he's pretty badass. It's a difference in taste, like the New Pornographers and myself have different taste in production as well but it all works out in the end.

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  Badass, Crazy, Fighting

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• I'm pretty self-conscious, so I tend to work in a way where I say what I need to say and get out rather than revisit things. It's kind of a collage style. I realized that it had more emotional weight that way. I'll always be in the developmental stages as far as being a songwriter.

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  Emotional, Style, Kind

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• I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

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  Champion, Important, Physical Activity

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I once asked a studio guy in Toronto, "How many people don't use auto tune?" and he said, "You and Nelly Furtado are the only two people who've never used it in here." Even though I'm not into Nelly Furtado, it kind of made me respect her. It's cool that she has some integrity.

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  Integrity, People, Guy

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• I think if you're a lady playing a guitar, other ladies need to see you playing the guitar, and they don't need to see men come out and fix your equipment for you. It just looks incredibly pussy. So I just do it all myself.

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  Thinking, Men, Guitar

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• I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

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  People, Thank God, Typical

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