Quotes by Evan Dando

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

— Evan Dando

Wisdom

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

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When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

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But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

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I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

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My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

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Hope

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

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Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

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But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

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CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

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For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

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Love

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

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Life

I have to make rock records occasionally.

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I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

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Truth

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

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Wisdom

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

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I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

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Hope

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

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Love

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

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Wisdom

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

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Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

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Life

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

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Wisdom

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

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