“Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.” ThinkingWayWritingPiecesWhatever Works Author:Glenn Branca
“I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.” DesireRocksBandMusicianRock MusicRock MusiciansExperimental Music Author:Glenn Branca
“There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.” PeopleFirstsRealWantedInterestingInfluenceRocksAlbumsPunkInteresting Things Author:Glenn Branca
“I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.” RealGuyOpinionStrangeCreatingMusic IsInstrumentsComposerButtonsComposingElectronic MusicCreating Something Author:Glenn Branca
“I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.” ThinkingUseSoundInterestStageGoes OnComputerToolsInstrumentsFasterComposingGoofy Author:Glenn Branca
“Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.” ImaginationCreatingMusic IsCreating Something Author:Glenn Branca
“It scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down, but they'll stop using their brain which is without a doubt the most powerful tool that you could have in any art.” PeopleWritingMeanArtPowerfulBrainDoubtWrittenToolsMost PowerfulScareWriting Music Author:Glenn Branca
“You can be a lot more subtle on TV, which is funny because I feel like TV is known for being the opposite of that. The thing we experience in life is that things are not overly dramatic, and things often happen in really small ways.” WayFeelsHappensLife IsKnownTvsOppositesDramaticSubtle Author:Jay Duplass
“Breakups usually don't happen down by the river with beautiful lighting. The moment you realize your relationship may be over might happen in Aisle 11 of Rite-Aid and the person you're with has disregarded your feelings and your needs by bringing you the wrong toothbrush again for the fourth time.” NeedsMayPersonsMomentsFeelingsMightHappensBeautifulRealizingRiversAidsBreakupFourthOur RelationshipLightingRiteAisleDisregardedToothbrushes Author:Jay Duplass
“When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of monkeys loose and one is President and one is Vice President, you know it's trouble. Monkeys make trouble.” KnowsHousePresidentTroubleCoupleVicesMonkeysVice PresidentZoos Author:Gore Vidal