Top 59 Quotes & Sayings by Kim Shattuck
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Sadly, it runs in my damn family, and that disease is a mystery to just about every scientist! We are definitely interested in finding a cure for ALS! Cure it already!
My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.
I'm glad we're not splattered all over MTV, because I don't think that's entirely the right way to go about building a career. Look at Green Day - they were built up - and then came crashing down. The overexposure is just too much of a burnout for most people.
I saw the Bangles before I was in a band. I really liked their rhythm. That was right when I was trying to learn how to play guitar. I was really frustrated because I couldn't strum, and then I saw Susannah Hoffs do this cool strum on a song, and it was my goal after that to learn how to do that strum.
I like inventive melodies and chord changes, a little bit of creativity.
A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.
I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!
The Pandoras began as a '60s punk group. Then they went pop, then metal. When they went metal, I quit because I hate heavy metal music and I wanted to write my own songs.
I really liked the Sex Pistols when they came out and I thought they had a lot of melody.
I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs.
The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody.
The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.
I'm still a fan of the Pixies!
One thing I learned is that I don't want to be in an all-girl band again. Besides, most of my friends are guys, anyway.
I always complain.
I have that weird thing where, if someone confronts me, I just get as bold as possible.
I like Dave Davies from the Kinks, before he could play slick.
When people get older, they get bitter or get cute.
People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.
Salt Lake's got a cool vibe.
Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I'll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It's fun.
I got sick and tired of hearing bands that didn't mean anything to me. I mean, there are some bands out there that are good, but if you want to hear stuff you want to hear, you got to do it yourself.
I am a perfectionist and the only reason why I started producing is because I didn't want to argue with a producer.
It was only later that I found out there was good '70s rock like the Raspberries and the Flaming Groovies. I always gravitated toward the '60s music more, though, like the Kinks, the Who and the Beatles, of course.
People get sucked into being so show-bizy. I mean this is show biz, but I just can't do anything that's not in my DNA.
I really can't categorize the Muffs music.
Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a purist. I'd never mess with it.
I'm not an amazing engineer; I'm just super basic. I'm pretty cavalier about it - I stick the mic wherever it sounds good.
I like clubs, I like sweat, I like people right up in my space.
I'm a basically decent person.
I really like the cute Beatles, the beginning. I don't really like the moustached Beatles very much. And then the hippie Beatles I'm not super-thrilled with, although they had good songs.
I've always had something turning in my brain. And it got to a point where I felt it was stupid to let some of the tunes die. So I began putting them down on paper.
When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there's a depressing or psychotic side to my personality that pops out in the lyrics.
I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That's how the Muffs started.
I've got too much fire in my blood.
There was a show at the Mayan in Los Angeles where I got overly enthusiastic and jumped into the crowd, and I know they weren't thrilled about that. When I got offstage the manager told me not to do that again. I said, 'Really, for my own safety?' And he said, 'No, because the Pixies don't do that.'
The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.
You can't have an ego when you're a team. One person can't really rule the roost.
People say I sound a lot like the Ramones and it's probably because I'm influenced by the same '60s groups, but I was never a strict Ramones fan.
I hate dancing.
I hate it when songwriters go on and on with the same idea.
When I wanted to join the Pandoras, my mom had an anxiety attack.
When I first wanted to play guitar it was because I had seen Brian Setzer. He's so good! I mean I was just blown away.
I think real life is weirder than fiction.
For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.
I wanted to play the drums, but I had no rhythm.
I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.
I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.
All the songs that I'm not sure are good, everyone likes the best.
I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.
I had heard a live show, where my voice didn't sound the way I wanted to hear it and I got paranoid. I'm not an amazing singer, I just belt it out in this crappy old way, but for a while I had it in my head that I couldn't sing.
People who like girl bands are really different from regular band fans.
I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.
I just don't like to do photography for money.
I've been singing quieter because I live in a thin-walled apartment.
All the best bands have to have more than just one strong songwriter.
You can tell a dumb guy a mile away.
Honestly, it's hard to play with a lot of intensity night after night.
I've actually said 'get off my grass' to people before. They were skateboarding on my grass!
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