Kim Shattuck Quotes

Kim Shattuck

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 17, 1963

I wanted to play the drums, but I had no rhythm.

Kim Shattuck

I'm a basically decent person.

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The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

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I really liked the Sex Pistols when they came out and I thought they had a lot of melody.

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People say I sound a lot like the Ramones and it's probably because I'm influenced by the same '60s groups, but I was never a strict Ramones fan.

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People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

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Honestly, it's hard to play with a lot of intensity night after night.

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I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

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I'm glad we're not splattered all over MTV, because I don't think that's entirely the right way to go about building a career. Look at Green Day - they were built up - and then came crashing down. The overexposure is just too much of a burnout for most people.

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I have that weird thing where, if someone confronts me, I just get as bold as possible.

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A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

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When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there's a depressing or psychotic side to my personality that pops out in the lyrics.

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I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs.

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I hate it when songwriters go on and on with the same idea.

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I like inventive melodies and chord changes, a little bit of creativity.

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For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.

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I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

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I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That's how the Muffs started.

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I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.

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It was only later that I found out there was good '70s rock like the Raspberries and the Flaming Groovies. I always gravitated toward the '60s music more, though, like the Kinks, the Who and the Beatles, of course.

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