Greg Saunier Quotes

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• I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

  Greg Saunier

  Jobs, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.

  Greg Saunier

  Tunes, Claims, Universal

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• When it comes down to intuition, when it comes down to gut feelings about whether a song is right, you can get distracted with words, rationalization. There's nothing wrong with music school, but part of music school has to be the ability to forget all of it, too.

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  Song, School, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've got childhood friends who are working for non-profit foundations, or who are running for state senate and doing things that actually do fight evil in this world. And what am I doing? I bang on some drums in a rock band. I try to tell myself that by doing that, I'm fighting evil - which is completely absurd. Music is not equipped in any way to fight against anything. Other than, I guess, it could fight against silence.

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  Running, Fighting, Evil

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I play drums, and I'd recommend it to anyone, except maybe your neighbors. It's great exercise - physical, mental, emotional, and social. It takes deep concentration but also activates concentration. If you're doing it right, it's always just a little harder than what you can actually pull off.

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  Exercise, Emotional, Play

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• I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

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  Ideas, Might, Way

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• I feel vulnerable when my ego is threatened - if I get jealous of another band's good time slot at a big festival, if I'm about to get clobbered in a political debate, if I'm trying to impress someone I have a crush on. It's the opposite of openness, letting go, allowing deep feelings to express themselves. For me, that comes from playing music and from kissing.

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  Crush, Letting Go, Jealous

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• I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to capitalize, "financializing" every moment of our enslaved lives. Then when China or somebody takes over, then it will be [them] doing those things that I'll be against.

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  Creating, People, Greed

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• What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

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  People, Greed, Chaos

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• I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it.

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  Fun, Responsibility, Waiting

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• Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

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  Common Sense, Kind, Twisted

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• I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

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  Thinking, Knows

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• What's great about going on tour is that it immediately unburdens me of those self-centered misconceptions. Because suddenly, with these songs you've been obsessed with for months, you're playing them for hundreds of people.

  Greg Saunier

  Song, Self, People

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

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  Gun, Going Away, Privilege

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

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  Privilege, Driven, Should

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• It's a great privilege to be able to play that much. When you play a lot, you can be really detail-oriented.

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  Play, Details, Able

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

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  Song, Rocks, Chance

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

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  Play, Different, Three

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

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  Play, Band, Come Up

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• There were no rules. There's no guide to follow. I would just trust my instincts for some unknown reason. Something inside me would say, "This guitar is not loud enough," and I wouldn't know why. You never know how to reach that point until you've reached it.

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  Guitar, Reason, Enough

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

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  Thinking, Trying, Hitting

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

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  People, Used, Stills

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

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  Song, Heard, Feels

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

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  Writing, Waiting, Playing Music

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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• It's amazing to think that there must be this river of ideas constantly rushing inside of a person, and once you've somehow found a path into it, then it's just there, whether you will it to be or not.

  Greg Saunier

  Thinking, Ideas, Rivers

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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