Latest Paul Westerberg Quotes from Interviews

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• I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

  Paul Westerberg

  Real, Heart, Replacements

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

• We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it for granted that a rock and roll band gets ripped off. We've tried to shake that tree a couple of times, but what can we do? You look back, when you're sort of idle in your middle years, and think, we should have made some money.

  Paul Westerberg

  Couple, School, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Nobody can miss you unless you go away.

  Paul Westerberg

  Missing, Going Away

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

• I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.

  Paul Westerberg

  Voice, Sound, Cracks

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

• By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We [The Replacements] stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.

  Paul Westerberg

  Sick, Together, Done

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

• I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

  Paul Westerberg

  Writing, Boys, Men

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

• Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day.

  Paul Westerberg

  Sound, Records, Timeless

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

• We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

  Paul Westerberg

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.

  Paul Westerberg

  Stupidity, Rhythm And Blues, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

  Paul Westerberg

  Albums, Opinion, Replacements

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

  Paul Westerberg

  Jobs, Stupid, Musician

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

• The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Light, Darkness

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.