Lou Barlow Quotes

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Lou Barlow

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 17, 1966

I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be.

Lou Barlow

I enjoy Dinosaur for what it is. It's a unique band that has a unique chemistry.

Lou Barlow

Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet.

Lou Barlow

Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry.

Lou Barlow

I've been trying to cut down on caffeine because it seems to aggravate my middle-age-onset acne, but I'm too tired to care. I'm growing a beard to hide it.

Lou Barlow

To be doing interviews in 2006 for a band I was kicked out of in 1989 - a band that I never thought I would play for again - in a way, it's weird.

Lou Barlow

At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music.

Lou Barlow

I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized.

Lou Barlow

I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful.

Lou Barlow

I'm the Folk Implosion's biggest fan.

Lou Barlow

I wrote a song for my sister's wedding.

Lou Barlow

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

Lou Barlow

That's what I've figured out over the years - the way I write makes people feel uncomfortable.

Lou Barlow

The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time.

Lou Barlow

If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.

Lou Barlow

Los Angeles was really beautiful, and California in general is a great place to live.

Lou Barlow

I prefer to read into other people's songs what I want to hear in them.

Lou Barlow

Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas.

Lou Barlow

From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control.

Lou Barlow

When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.

Lou Barlow