San Diego Union Tribune

Recién aparece un artículo en el San Diego Union Tribune, donde recopilan las frases que más les llamaron la atención en cuanto a entrevistas musicales se refiere. Mi sorpresa fue encontrarme en dicha lista:


The stuff that comes out of their mouths!

By George Varga
UNION-TRIBUNE POP MUSIC CRITIC
San Diego, CA

December 26, 2004

From the profound and the absurd to the profoundly absurd, musicians say the most fascinating things. Here are some of our favorite quotes from interviews conducted by Pop Scene over the past year:

"Dave Grohl? No way! I've had a crush on him since I was 11!" – Norah Jones reacts to the news that the leader of the Foo Fighters is a fan of her music.

"One time, (George Harrison) came over with Eric Clapton and (bassist) Carl Radle, and knocked on my door. George said: 'Hey, have you got anything to smoke?' And I said: 'Oh, you've come over for the drugs, have you?' And Eric said: 'I didn't realize you knew each other so well.' " – Ex-Ten Years After leader Alvin Lee recalls being neighbors with the former Beatles guitarist.

"In 2002, an entrepreneurial magazine selected us as one of the 10 best and most influential – how do you say? – marketing phenomenons in Mexico. We laughed a lot about that, because we don't have an office, a secretary or even a phone line. We were just a bunch of friends experimenting with an electronic hybrid." – Nortec Collective's Pedro Gabriel Beas reflects on his group's unexpected success.

"People say we're derivative, but no one can ever say what it is (we're derivative of). I definitely see that everything we do is about what came before us." – Vines bassist Patrick Matthews clears things up, sort of.

"I always looked at singing as something I could do until I die. I can sing forever. I don't know if I can rap forever and stay as sharp as the sharpest girl in the game." – Queen Latifah discusses her first album of jazz and pop standards.

"A good woman will push you beyond your normal restricted safe area. My wife kind of pushed me out into traffic in a stroller." – former San Diegan Tom Waits credits his wife, Kathleen Brennan, for encouraging him to take musical risks.

"Most of it (lip-syncing) is people who do dance music. Then, you have people like Hilary Duff, who doesn't sing live, and a lot of younger female artists. To me, it's a disgrace to the music itself. It's really bad to see people, on the level (of fame) they're at, on stage, lip-syncing, when so many talented people can't get a break" – Avril Lavigne sings out for live music.

"The thing I find absolutely ridiculous is bands with 30-year-old men in skateboard outfits whining about how their mums are treating them." – Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins explains why this English band has little in common with certain American rock acts.

"Alternative audiences are much more open to the musicianship of our group and are much more patient, whereas the traditional urban audience only has enough stamina to last for your current single. And since the Roots has a 12-year recording history of seven albums with no hits, it's difficult to sustain their attention." – Roots drummer and leader Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson discusses his group's audience in black-and-white terms.

"Bob Dylan knows more than me." – Don Was explains why it's good to be humble when you produce an album for a rock legend.

"This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know." – Linda Ronstadt devises a novel way to pare down her audience.





"For them to (play up) Ozzy Osbourne and other corny-ass white people but not Elvin is demeaning and I'm really embarrassed to live in this country." – Carlos Santana bemoans the lack of media coverage for the death of jazz drum icon Elvin Jones.

"Some people have said to me that I do business wrong. They say: 'What you're supposed to do is the same thing every year, and then expand. Whereas you, Perry, try to expand every year, and that can cause complications.' They're right, if I'm trying to do this as a business. But I'm not – this is an art form." – Lollapalooza co-founder Perry Farrell promotes the 2004 edition of his annual festival (which he expanded to two days, only to later cancel because of low ticket sales).

"Apologize to who? Man, all that's just propaganda. People meet me, and say: 'Hey, you ain't nothing like I thought.' The media can make you seem the way they want. I've never seen the movie ('What's Love Got To Do With It'), but the parts I've seen, none of it is true. And anyway if it was true, I wouldn't owe the public an apology, I'd owe it to Tina – if what they said was true." – Rock pioneer Ike Turner refutes his film image.

"It's like the hypocrisy, the outrage, over Janet Jackson (at the MTV-produced Super Bowl half-time show), well, what do people think normally goes on in (music) videos? It's not my intent to go in the direction of puritanism and no sex, but, rather, in the direction of sexuality with substance, not just gratuitous titillation as a national cultural direction." – Jazz great Wynton Marsalis weighs in on the culture wars