Kristin Hersh Quotes (36 Quotes)

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

In the end I'm mother, so they take the bitter with the sweet. They listen to the music and they go on tour sometimes, It feels OK most of the time.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

MP3's are perfect.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

I have a beautiful family and I'm in my favourite band. At the same time I don't recommend it. I never sleep and something is always suffering.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

It's not like touring with a rock band. I don't have any friends or equipment of volume on stage, just me. Just me and the chair.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I'm not afraid to let the songs say what they want any more so the lack of censorship on my part makes them a little more universal.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

We were raised to be here now, and to be compassionate, and that's all we took from it, too. Neither of us became particularly groovy people.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

When Nirvana was selling records they dangled this carrot in front of underground bands' noses saying well you can be good and a millionaire.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

We just want to play music that's the best it can possibly be. So we let them play their own games and market it however they can.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I don't know what any of my songs are about, ... I don't know what I'm saying half the time, until I see it written down. It has to feel right coming out of my mouth. I can't be lying. If it sounds beautiful, that's what I need to hear.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.