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I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

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Ariel Pink
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 24
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
LA
California
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For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
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I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.
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I'm a product of my environment.
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Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.
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I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.
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I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
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I always want to be a member in the audience, and I want to hear it from their point of view and see it from their point of view so I can know if it's good. But that's just my issues, not a real problem.
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I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.
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During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.
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I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.
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You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.
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I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.
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I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em.
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I always want to do something that just sort of fits the mood. It's supposed to help the song, it's not supposed to take away from the song or re-contextualize it. I always feel like the less you make it a conceptual territorial debut, the better.
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That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.
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The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.
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From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.
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I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
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Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.
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I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.
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