Quote

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

Neko Case

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Neko Case
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 8
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Neko Richelle Case
People
Musician
Working
Jobs
Ends
Ever
Really
Disappointing
Good
Musicians
Always
Worried

More quotes by Neko Case

Image
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.
Neko Case
Image
The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.
Neko Case
Image
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.
Neko Case
Image
There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
Neko Case
Image
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.
Neko Case
Image
We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of looking cool. It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.
Neko Case
Image
I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
Neko Case
Image
I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
Neko Case
Image
Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.
Neko Case
Image
I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.
Neko Case
Image
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.
Neko Case
Image
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.
Neko Case
Image
Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
Neko Case
Image
When you're making records, you develop, and so you hear the things you want to move away from. It stings a little, but you know, you gotta own it too. You've got to just go, You know, I wasn't afraid to learn in front of people, so I give myself a little credit for not being afraid of anything.
Neko Case
Image
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.
Neko Case
Image
I like to think that I'm not old yet.
Neko Case
Image
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.
Neko Case
Image
I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.
Neko Case
Image
The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.
Neko Case
Image
I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...
Neko Case