Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Bucky Pope

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Frank Buckley "Bucky" Pope is a former professional American football wide receiver in the NFL for the Los Angeles Rams and the Green Bay Packers. He is mostly known for his 1964 season and nickname,"The Catawba Claw." The 31.44 yards he gained per reception that year is the second-highest for a season in NFL history. After his stellar rookie season his career was derailed due to injuries. He missed all of the 1965 season then played only 3 more years.

Born: March 23, 1941

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I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

Bucky Pope

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.

Bucky Pope

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.

Bucky Pope

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

Bucky Pope

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

Bucky Pope

I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world.

Bucky Pope

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.

Bucky Pope

I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really strong love for music prior to that, but punk created a new template.

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A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.

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Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Bucky Pope

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