Gerald Caiafa Quotes

• Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

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  Song, People, Together

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• I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

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  Years, Lasts, Able

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• We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

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  Kids, Cds, Parent

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• If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

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  Thinking, Want Something, Our Future

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• Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

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  Sometimes, Audience

  "Misfits' Jerry Only, Doyle Talk Glenn Danzig Reunion". Interview with Kory Grow, www.rollingstone.com. September 6, 2016.

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• Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.

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  Stuff, Coming Back

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• The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

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  Dream, Song, Rock And Roll

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• My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

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  Jobs, People, Band

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• Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.

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  Song, Looks, Records

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• It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

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  Play, Tickets, Care

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• We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

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  Band, Ignite, Ramones

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• We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

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  Goes On, Lists, Lawyer

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• There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

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  Giving Up, Way, Band

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• I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

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  Pistols, Ramones, Blondie

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• The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

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  Thinking, Support, Cost

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• The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.

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  Kids, Cds, Packaging

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• If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

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  Fate, Hard Times, Thinking

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• Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

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  Dimes, Looks, Misfits

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• We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

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  Real, Trying, Different

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• It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

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  Writing, Stuff, Firsts

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