How I feel everyday!!!

"When I sing these songs, this filmstrip winds around in my brain. And it's all I can see."
- Jeff Mangum
"I always imagined that I would make a great record and then die in a plane crash or commit suicide or something."

- Rhett Miller

photo by Sean Shroff Matthew Sweet



"Expressing [sadness] through music gives you hope, and I guess that's what art is - kind of finding hope in the horror that life is and rendering it somehow."

- Matthew Sweet

There is nothing more depressing than trying to appear happy when you are not."

- Nick Cave


"It's like having a friend for life. It's someone who knows how ugly you get, how much you freak out. It's having this person who's not ever going to abandon you."

- Janet Weiss



"We were looking for some inspired voltage, just getting together and chasing electricity."

- Kyle Fischer


photo by C .Taylor Crothers
"We're not trying to be activists. We're just writing about what we know."

- Bobby Gillespie

AIR
"We know our force is in emotions. We're trying to do what we are good at: harmonies and melodies."
- Jean-Benoit Dunckel


Tom Waits
"Every song needs to be anatomically correct: You need weather, you need the name of the town, something to eat -- every song needs certain ingredients to be balanced."
- Tom Waits

Without music life would be a mistake. -Nietzsche

Spiritualized
"I want to create something that's bigger than what we're playing. Somebody wrote about us live once, 'It was like God playing feedback with a guitar behind the curtain.' Well, I want it to sound like it's several deities back there playing!"
- Jason Pierce
(MAGNET .26)