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I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.
John K. Samson
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John K. Samson
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 1
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
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More quotes by John K. Samson
That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter. Even if you don't do it, you're permitted to. He gave a lot of writers permission to do that, to expand and push out the borders of what a rock song can contain.
John K. Samson
A more detailed world is a more complicated and complex one, and therefore a more empathetic one. I feel Gord's Downie lyrics are exceptionally empathetic, or that's what they accomplish. The fact that they can cross all those cultural cliques and boundaries really amplifies that, to me.
John K. Samson
I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role of a writer is to build a more detailed world. I think it applies to what Gord Downie is doing with his body of work, which is to build a more detailed world and there's something really political about that.
John K. Samson
John Berger once defined music by saying that it began as a howl, became a prayer, then a lament, and still contains the elements of all three. I think that's pretty wise. That's about the only way I know how to explain what music is.
John K. Samson
I always go into listening to a new record by Gord Downie solo or The Tragically Hip and think, Well, I know what this is going to be, lyrically. Every song starts and then I think, Oh, I have no idea where that comes from. He has this entirely original voice, both literal and metaphorical.
John K. Samson
There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be useful, so I often find myself better able to write from a point of view that isn't exactly my own.
John K. Samson
In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.
John K. Samson
I've always viewed my career with some suspicion, like I don't want to count on it to be the only thing I do. Partly that has to do with feeling like an imposter, like we all do sometimes, and partly I like doing other things, and being a full-time artist takes a focus I recognise I don't have.
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