Trevor Dunn Quotes (35 Quotes)


    I take all of my music seriously and personally.

    Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

    I would never be able to choose one project over another because it is the balance, the variation, the change that is important to me.

    If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.



    Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

    Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.

    The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.

    There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

    I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

    I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

    I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

    Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.

    I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition.

    Bungle is definitely a priority right now.

    I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

    Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

    In fact, I try to embrace the music, personality, style, phrasing of other's depending on who I'm playing with. I try to reflect their music.

    I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

    It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

    I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

    I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

    It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

    Well, musicians everywhere make up a small part of the population, so incest is to be expected.

    I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

    Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.

    Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

    I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

    Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

    If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated.

    But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

    Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

    NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos.

    I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

    I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.


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