Craig Finn Quotes - Page 3

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• I made a decision at some point to live a nontraditional life. I've become like, the opposite of a consumer. I just want freedom. I don't want stuff. I don't want clutter. I just want to be able to move freely. I want to be good to the people I love. But I don't want stuff. I just want, you know, love and big ideas.

  Craig Finn

  Moving, People, Decision

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break.

  Craig Finn

  Needs, Break, Enjoy

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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• A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.

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  Couple, Heart, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I'm not that good of a singer, so I don't hold a lot of notes.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in a song should be something I can hear myself saying.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be hard for people to recapture. Hard for people to live with.

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  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the coolest things to me about going to a show is you look over, and the guy next to you is sitting there drinking a beer and he's wearing a Donkeys t-shirt. And you're like, "Dude, I love The Donkeys."

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  Drinking, Beer, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.

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  Book, Reading, Fans

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this house in upstate [New York]. I still have the story, but I got 15,000, 20,000 words in and it was like, This is falling apart. I can't figure out.

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  New York, Fall, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

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  Thinking, Littles, Bits

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do.

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  Thinking, Trying, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a girl at school that you like. So you're going to be thinking about that girl. That song is sort of about that girl. The songwriter doesn't know that girl, obviously. He wrote it for something else. But there's the specific meaning with the universal again.

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  Girl, Song, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Before I had a driver's license, and I lived in the suburbs of Minneapolis and went to high school and came home - I could ride my bike around or get a ride from my parents, but my world was pretty small, limited. Like anyone at that age, I only knew things I could get to.

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  Home, School, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."

  Craig Finn

  Thinking, Guy, Albums

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can't get every girl; you get the ones you love the best.

  Craig Finn

  Girl, Every Girl

  "Song: "Soft in the Center"". pitchfork.com. 2010.

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• The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.

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  Song, Reality, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.

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  Drinking, Interesting, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.

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  Real, Fascination, Band

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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• Ray Cappo never tried to convert me into a Krishna, although one of his cohorts probably did. I think it was just about being wrapped up in this thing. Hardcore, at one point, meant everything to me. Now you look back, and I still think it's cool, but to some extent I grew out of it. Other things became a bigger priority for me.

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  Thinking, Priorities, Krishna

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• It's really easy, in a band, to overstate - you feel like everything you do is different than the past. I think this is just another Hold Steady record, but at the same time, there is some evolution. Like, "How can we make this chorus bigger?" "What do we want this to sound like?"

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  Past, Thinking, Different

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• I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.

  Craig Finn

  Pace, Records, Release

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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• You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.

  Craig Finn

  Running, Weight, Want

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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• I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.

  Craig Finn

  Age, Trying, Records

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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• An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Mean, People

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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• My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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