Health on music history: “We’re definitely at the hinge of something happening musically where like things are just changing at such a rapid pace that it’s an interesting point to be in history, musical history. It IS getting cooler. And apparently there’s the new acid.”
Brazilian Girls on swearing: “Saying ‘cazzo’ is like, it’s kind of like New Yorkers who say ‘fuck’ all the time in every sentence. ‘Fucking’ this, ‘fucking’ that, ‘I fucking love you.’ It doesn’t matter what you say really it’s all about fucking, ultimately. And in Italy it’s just all about cock.”
Times New Viking on music criticism: “Everyone always tries to be clever. Like, ‘It sounds like a storm trooper shitting in a helmet and then they shipped it to Iraq and shipped it back. And then they put it on a boombox.’”
A Place To Bury Strangers on pop music: “Lots of these songs have about 120 beats per minute. And that’s almost like – at a 4/4 beat – the rhythm of your heart going. And that’s what tons of regular old pop songs are all running at.”
Abe Vigoda on aging: “I’m kind of really excited to experience life as an old person. That would be really fucking awesome to fast-forward into my life.”
Juana Molina on vegetarianism: “I don’t like to say I am a vegetarian, but really I can’t eat those little creatures because they are too pretty.”
The Shackeltons on energy independence: “I’m talking about the Amish…when the power grids go down and all of us people who depend on regular energy freak out, they turn on their little kerosene, they light a little fire, they’ve got a little candle, they’re all happy, they’re eating food, and it didn’t effect them.”
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