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When you get an idea, it's not going to be a great idea until you push it. You’ve got to push it until it’s uncomfortable. And then you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?’ ”
Neko Case
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Neko Case
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 8
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Neko Richelle Case
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Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.
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I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.
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I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
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There's not like a science to it, necessarily, but I'm also the kind of person who spends a long time in the studio. I will spend my entire advance just getting it done, which is probably stupid, but I don't have extravagant taste. I mean, I paid for it, so there you go. Why not? The recording process is also very fun.
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I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.
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Around 2010, I kind of looked up and said, I'm 40 years old. You know, I chose music. I don't have a husband. I don't have any kids. Like, I chose music. So, I had to make a decision. Like, do I want to do something else, or do I want to go from journeyman to master? And I realized, I want to be a really good musician.
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Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.
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Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.
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You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.
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We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of looking cool. It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.
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The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.
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I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.
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A live show is one of the last holdouts of a thing that makes you feel a part of a community, where you'll go and maybe meet your future wife or boyfriend, or you're taking your sister to her first show. These are the things that you remember later in your life.
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I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.
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You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.
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The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
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I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.
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I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...
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I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
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Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
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