Lou Barlow Quotes

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Lou Barlow

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 17, 1966

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.

Lou Barlow

If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood because it's less about a shrewd marketing plan; it's more about an individual emotion.

Lou Barlow

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

Lou Barlow

I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos.

Lou Barlow

'Brace the Wave' is an acoustic-electric record recorded with electricity on analog-digital and digitally-analog equipment.

Lou Barlow

I have really severe tinnitus.

Lou Barlow

I think musicians naturally gravitate toward music that sounds real.

Lou Barlow

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

Lou Barlow

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through.

Lou Barlow

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

Lou Barlow

I'll figure something out by writing a song about it.

Lou Barlow

Worry is a big part of my life. I definitely worry a lot.

Lou Barlow

Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.

Lou Barlow

I've put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges to myself, thoughts I was keeping myself busy with, nothing I had any intention of anybody grasping onto.

Lou Barlow

Sebadoh were always kind of the un-band. We never really lived in the same town.

Lou Barlow

When you're in a band, it's kind of a big thing to be friends as well.

Lou Barlow

I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it keeps me engaged.

Lou Barlow

It just takes me awhile to get comfortable in any situation.

Lou Barlow