Les Claypool Quotes

• In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

  Les Claypool

  Funny, Hope, Crazy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

  Les Claypool

  Stars, Rocks, Fishing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

  Les Claypool

  Law, Brave, Tradition

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• Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

  Les Claypool

  Play, Band, Bass

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

  Les Claypool

  Life, Fun, Swimming

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• You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

  Les Claypool

  Book, Watches, Littles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

  Les Claypool

  Running, Grain

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• I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

  Les Claypool

  Spontaneity, Bigs, Believer

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

  Les Claypool

  Artist, Thinking, Appreciate

  "Primus' Les Claypool". Interview with John Semley, music.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

  Les Claypool

  Guy, Band, Pieces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music in general is looking for something new overall.

  Les Claypool

  Something New

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

  Les Claypool

  Personality, Guy, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin all these years is changin it up.

  Les Claypool

  Doors, Years, Trails

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

  Les Claypool

  Drs, Watches, Would Be

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.

  Les Claypool

  Actors, My Favorite, Planets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

  Les Claypool

  Play, Cities, My Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

  Les Claypool

  Couple, Past, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

  Les Claypool

  Names, Frogs, Imagery

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

  Les Claypool

  Basketball, Sound, Corny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

  Les Claypool

  Nice, San Francisco, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

  Les Claypool

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

  Les Claypool

  Thinking, Musician, Playing Music

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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