Joey Santiago Quotes

• I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

  Joey Santiago

  Simple, Affinity, Warm

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• Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

  Joey Santiago

  People, Trying, Sound

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• Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

  Joey Santiago

  Stupid, Writing, Trying

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• People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

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  Guitar, People, Stuff

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• The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

  Joey Santiago

  Song

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• The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

  Joey Santiago

  Believe, Night, Bed

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• It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

  Joey Santiago

  Nice, Exclamation Marks, Ends

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• I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

  Joey Santiago

  Reading, Cycling, Challenges

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• I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

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  Moving, People, Trying

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• I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

  Joey Santiago

  Accents, Australian, I Can

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• Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

  Joey Santiago

  Influence, Scene, Grunge

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• It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

  Joey Santiago

  Waiting, Red Lipstick, Lines

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