Glenn Danzig Quotes

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Glenn Danzig

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 23, 1955

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

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When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.

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If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.

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I hate iPods.

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I like albums. I like holding them, seeing what they're all about, you know? I like reading liner notes. Even if it's a CD, you're getting kind of an idea of what the band is coming from. Or what they want you to think they're coming from. I like that.

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I don't even listen to music on the road, and if I did, it would be classical or whatever, something to chill me out.

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CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I'm sure they'll come out with a better format someday.

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I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

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I'm lucky that I can stay busy and people are interested in what I do. I have fantastic people that are into whatever I do, which is great. I try to keep myself happy and them happy.

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It seems like time slips out of your hands. You wake up, and 2-3 years have passed.

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I've always tried to expand what heavy or loud music was and where it can go and what it can do.

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It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.

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The most rebelliousness I see now is coming out of WikiLeaks and D.C. Leaks and BlackListed News.

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All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.

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Pop music doesn't challenge anything.

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For me, it shouldn't just be a live show: it should be an experience. It should be some kind of crazy, tribal, exhausting experience.

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Back in the days, we had to work with a shoestring budget. We had a movie screen, and we'd show movie trailers on them, and then we'd rip through it and started playing. Now we have a little money to play with to do a cool stage set.

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It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.

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It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like, 'Punk rock? Put it back. It's just a flash in the pan.'

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David Bowie's death came out of the blue, as did Prince's.

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