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I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.
Craig Finn
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Craig Finn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 22
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Some people will totally get restless, since you can make demos pretty easy. It's not unreasonable for someone to say, All right, can you just record this and go home and work on it?
Craig Finn
It's good to have some kind of California in there. It's almost always appropriate. It's appropriate on a sunny day or late at night. If you grew up on the Grateful Dead, which I certainly did, you listened to 10 million bootlegs. But you realize that American Beauty has some really tight, well-arranged songs that aren't meandering.
Craig Finn
I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.
Craig Finn
Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head.
Craig Finn
I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.
Craig Finn
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.
Craig Finn
The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.
Craig Finn
If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.
Craig Finn
If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break.
Craig Finn
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
Craig Finn
If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.
Craig Finn
You can't get every girl you get the ones you love the best.
Craig Finn
I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this house in upstate [New York]. I still have the story, but I got 15,000, 20,000 words in and it was like, This is falling apart. I can't figure out.
Craig Finn
An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.
Craig Finn
I've tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I'm not that good of a singer, so I don't hold a lot of notes.
Craig Finn
I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he's allowed to be out on his own.
Craig Finn
I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?
Craig Finn
People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.
Craig Finn
The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it.
Craig Finn
I've written a lot about drugs and alcohol. I wouldn't say it's because we've gotten bigger or anything, but I kind of feel a little bit done with it. There are other things to talk about.
Craig Finn