Lou Barlow Quotes

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Lou Barlow

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 17, 1966

For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear.

Lou Barlow

I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had.

Lou Barlow

It's cool to think about nursing, because a lot of people decide to go into it later in their lives. I could slip into school to be an LPN or an RN as a middle-aged man, and it wouldn't be unusual.

Lou Barlow

I've always tried to make music for someone who's never heard anything I've ever done.

Lou Barlow

Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.

Lou Barlow

Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable.

Lou Barlow

I hear people telling me a lot that the production of that particular record - 'One Part Lullaby' - really influenced them. I'm like, 'What? We were dropped from the label after that!'

Lou Barlow

'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids' soundtrack. It did nothing. It didn't start anything for me.

Lou Barlow

People in the Midwest, there's a lot of regional pride and a lot more, like, fake positivity - 'That's great - you're awesome!'

Lou Barlow

I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.

Lou Barlow

Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.

Lou Barlow

When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like, three or four strumming patterns that seemed kind of unique to me.

Lou Barlow

Now, when I have a four-string that I take on the road with me, it's a regular Martin. I bought a decent Martin with a pickup in it, and then I just take off the strings and have four strings on it.

Lou Barlow

I'm a huge Zombies fan.

Lou Barlow

My experience with Dino Jr. proved that making new music was a worthwhile pursuit.

Lou Barlow

I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from experience, that the more fun I have doing something that the more successful it will be.

Lou Barlow

I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

Lou Barlow

Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh.

Lou Barlow

I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.

Lou Barlow

To bicker over what could have been is silly.

Lou Barlow