Mike Lowry Quotes (33 Quotes)

We became good friends with Galactic as well.

We are going to make the most of what we can since this is the last record on our deal. Then we will see what the future holds for us.

If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.

I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.

It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.

Well, we have started two separate public non-profits, and in a lot of ways they dovetail but the issues are a little different.

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

For that to be effective, it has to be at least in turn related to how there's political action to actually change public policy.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.

You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

We really want to credit everybody's response, certainly the citizen groups, the advocacy groups, Children's Alliance, and others.

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

A part of the problem is the 601 spending limit-but we're talking about a group who can't even get up to the 601 spending limit, you know

Wanting to really start over from a position where we wouldn't get sort of further along then drop all our songs we have done in the past.

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be.

It's why we're-as a for instance, we're actually trying to go out and find a different way to get people involved in discussion groups.

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.