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Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.
- Bill Callahan
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#Time
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I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'
- Bill Callahan
#Guitar
#I Am
#Lyrics
#Singing
#Will
I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.
- Bill Callahan
#Accuracy
#I Am
#Long
#More
#Question
You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.
- Bill Callahan
#Always
#Angry
#Hot
#Something
#Through
I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.
- Bill Callahan
#Doing
#Find
#Me
#Skin
#Voice
There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive an hour into the wild.
- Bill Callahan
#Drive
#Know
#Never
#Weird
#Wild
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
- Bill Callahan
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#Father
#Fiction
#He
#Like
As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.
- Bill Callahan
#Average
#Just
#Kid
I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.
- Bill Callahan
#Bad
#Change
#Cool
#Guitar
#Real
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
- Bill Callahan
#Big
#Book
#Feel
#Reading
#Song
Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.
- Bill Callahan
#Guitar
#Laugh
#Me
#Music
#Time
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
- Bill Callahan
#Life
#Live
#My Life
#Nature
#Politics
Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.
- Bill Callahan
#Beautiful Day
#Beautiful
#Day
#Every Day
I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.
- Bill Callahan
#Dumb
#I Am
#Man
#Me
#Simple
You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.
- Bill Callahan
#Chair
#Christmas
#Day
#Face
#Waiting
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