Paul Westerberg Quotes

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Paul Westerberg

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 31, 1960

I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

Paul Westerberg

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

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Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.

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I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop.

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I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

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You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever.

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Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

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The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

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The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

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So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.

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Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

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Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

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It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.

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It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

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It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

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I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

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I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

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I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

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I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

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I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

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