Kim Shattuck Quotes

Kim Shattuck

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 17, 1963

Sadly, it runs in my damn family, and that disease is a mystery to just about every scientist! We are definitely interested in finding a cure for ALS! Cure it already!

Kim Shattuck

The Pandoras began as a '60s punk group. Then they went pop, then metal. When they went metal, I quit because I hate heavy metal music and I wanted to write my own songs.

Kim Shattuck

I really like the cute Beatles, the beginning. I don't really like the moustached Beatles very much. And then the hippie Beatles I'm not super-thrilled with, although they had good songs.

Kim Shattuck

Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a purist. I'd never mess with it.

Kim Shattuck

There was a show at the Mayan in Los Angeles where I got overly enthusiastic and jumped into the crowd, and I know they weren't thrilled about that. When I got offstage the manager told me not to do that again. I said, 'Really, for my own safety?' And he said, 'No, because the Pixies don't do that.'

Kim Shattuck

You can't have an ego when you're a team. One person can't really rule the roost.

Kim Shattuck

When I first wanted to play guitar it was because I had seen Brian Setzer. He's so good! I mean I was just blown away.

Kim Shattuck

I like Dave Davies from the Kinks, before he could play slick.

Kim Shattuck

My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.

Kim Shattuck

I'm still a fan of the Pixies!

Kim Shattuck

I saw the Bangles before I was in a band. I really liked their rhythm. That was right when I was trying to learn how to play guitar. I was really frustrated because I couldn't strum, and then I saw Susannah Hoffs do this cool strum on a song, and it was my goal after that to learn how to do that strum.

Kim Shattuck

I've actually said 'get off my grass' to people before. They were skateboarding on my grass!

Kim Shattuck

I've got too much fire in my blood.

Kim Shattuck

All the best bands have to have more than just one strong songwriter.

Kim Shattuck

I just don't like to do photography for money.

Kim Shattuck

I had heard a live show, where my voice didn't sound the way I wanted to hear it and I got paranoid. I'm not an amazing singer, I just belt it out in this crappy old way, but for a while I had it in my head that I couldn't sing.

Kim Shattuck

The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody.

Kim Shattuck

I'm not an amazing engineer; I'm just super basic. I'm pretty cavalier about it - I stick the mic wherever it sounds good.

Kim Shattuck

You can tell a dumb guy a mile away.

Kim Shattuck

One thing I learned is that I don't want to be in an all-girl band again. Besides, most of my friends are guys, anyway.

Kim Shattuck