It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.
More Quotes from Arto Lindsay:
Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.Arto Lindsay
It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.
Arto Lindsay
I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.
Arto Lindsay
We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.
Arto Lindsay
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
Arto Lindsay
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
Arto Lindsay
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Place Quotes, Sense & Perception QuotesThe links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.
Jacques Verges
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Ben Shahn
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
Steve Lacy