Lou Barlow Quotes

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Lou Barlow

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 17, 1966

I look forward to so many things about going to Japan. The shows are early. It's great! They're really early, so it helps make dealing with jetlag a little easier.

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I think all food except for maybe pizza and Mexican food is better in Japan.

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With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music.

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Every show I play is like a little celebration of something in my life that has gone really well.

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I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.

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My voice is not very dynamic.

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I don't really have friends in general. I never have. I didn't go to college and didn't have friends in high school.

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Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.

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J. makes me laugh. He's incredibly dry and has a pretty harsh sense of humor that I enjoy.

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I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak.

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I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable.

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I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.

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It's kind of crazy how music helped me overcome the anxieties that I have.

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I don't know if i have a 'take' on L.A. The music community is enormous, from the studio musicians to the bands trying to 'make it' to the indie bands... so many bands... it can be overwhelming. But it seems healthy.

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I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music.

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I like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better.

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I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric.

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Most of the times that I've written break-up songs, it's been different because I was always trying to get back to something: get back to a situation or talk my way or sing my way back into the relationship.

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Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

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I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them.

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