Lou Barlow Quotes

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Lou Barlow

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 17, 1966

NYC is a wonderland full of passionate music fans. Once I got over being intimidated by rock critics and finicky hipsters, I realized that NYC was a great place to play.

Lou Barlow

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

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There are very few songs I really hate.

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Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness.

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I don't want to meet anybody famous, usually.

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I like all the obnoxious Eagles stuff that just drives people crazy. I love 'Life In The Fast Lane' and 'Hotel California.'

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I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with.

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The minute we first started recording 'Defend Yourself,' I thought, 'Yeah. We're going to have to deal with a really terrible review from Pitchfork for this record.'

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I love making records, and part of really doing that and being happy about it is just that each time I've done something, I come to terms with what maybe is wrong with it, and then I move on to the next thing.

Lou Barlow

One thing about when I came back into Dinosaur that was really cool was that pretty much anybody that J. was working with who had a long-term relationship with J. were people I really liked and that I actually may have already known.

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Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear 'Love' by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment, it will bring me to tears.

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I love Devo. There's nothing not to like.

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Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only really liked - the rawer it was, the more I was into it.

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The Music Machine is my favorite rock band ever.

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A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

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I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.

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I've never been good at playing live in front of people.

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I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.

Lou Barlow

After discovering the Ramones, I discovered really crude ways to multi-track by taking another cassette recorder and plugging that into the eight-track, playing it back, so that as I was recording with the mic in my guitar, I could have another cassette player I had recorded on feeding into the recording.

Lou Barlow

It's weird to say, but Sebadoh is kind of Dinosaur Jr. Jr. My two bandmates in the early Sebadoh era, Jason Lowenstein and Jeff Gaffney, were huge Dinosaur fans. They were very influenced by Dinosaur.

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