 Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don`t understand the concept. I think that there`s not a joke on this record, where once there always was for comic relief. I simply was incapable of coming up with one this time.
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I like to go to the record store. Every time I do, I wander up and down the aisles and nine times out of 10, I don`t buy anything.
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It`s fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it`s still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I`m still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.
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Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they`re no artist. If it`s in your blood, it can`t stop flowing.
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I have my own language and it`s high time I put a little of it out there.
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I`ve had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it`s out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.
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Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn`t aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.
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I forever felt that I`ve fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock `n` roll and too old to be brand-new. It`s hard.
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Actually, I`ve done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you`re already committed to dates. I`m just sort of putting out feelers this way.
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I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.
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To have a lot of people clap is not my goal, so it took me a few years to realize that I am an artist more than a wannabe rock `n` roll star.
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A rock`n`roll band needs to be able to get under people`s skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.
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I`m beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.
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It was a teenage dream to be a rock `n` roll star, and I think I came as close as I ever wanted to and it`s much closer to artist now.
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I`m always slightly baffled when I get done with a record, because to my ear it sounds like what I would like to hear on the radio.
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I think of the Replacements only when they`re brought up to me. For two years, I`m at home, they don`t really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I`m not ashamed of anything we did.
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The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
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I didn`t wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We`re all that forever, and I`ve just grown older. I mean, I haven`t lost anything. I`ve gained a few things.
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I don`t think there`s anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it`s not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can`t stop.
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You know, he likes me because I`m his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever.
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Right now, it hasn`t affected my music other than the fact that I don`t have time to write any of it. That`s no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I`d have to quit.
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I`m not dissatisfied with my place in it rock `n` roll.
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Stick with your heart and you`ll be fine.
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Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.
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It`s like, it`s up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.
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I`m hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.
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I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you`re going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.
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The truth is overrated.
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I think it should be evident by now, but I`m as lost as anyone.
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So I figured in keeping with the record, I`d do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don`t know, I`m just going to play some songs. I think it`ll be fun.
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It`s my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can`t even show it to him. Yes, it`s affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.
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The best I can say is that it`s better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It`s better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
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Although, my experience when I`ve been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I`m too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you`re halfway away from it.
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Trivia
Gave up drugs and alcohol following the disbanding of The Replacements in 1992, and was successfully treated for depression in 1998.
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Can`t Hardly Wait was named after the Replacements song of the same name, and acts as the theme song during the ending credits.
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Actually, he released two albums this year, Stereo, and Mono (under the alias of Grandpa Boy). The album that got The `Mats noticed would definitely have to be, "Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash", which was released by the Twin/Tone label. Across town "rivals" Husker Du, were jealous of them because they played less than a dozen shows before they were signed. Bassist Tommy Stinson wasn`t even in High School by this point. None of The Replacements graduated high school in fact. Bob Stinson, who played guitar in The `Mats for the first seven years, was found dead in his apartment in 1995, due to an apparent overdose. The `Mats never really got the mainstream recognition that they deserved.
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His latest album, a double disc titled `Stereo,` was released on April 23, 2002. It is his fourth solo effort since the break up of the Replacements in 1992.
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Son Johnny was born in 1998.
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Westerburg High School, the fictional high school used in the cult classic film, Heathers, was named in honor of Westerberg by the film`s writer.
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His albums with the Replacements, 1984`s `Let it Be`, 1985`s `Tim`, and 1987`s `Pleased to Meet Me`, are considered among the best released in the 1980s.
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Although he composed the soundtrack to "Singles," the music of the Replacements is featured in Cameron Crowe`s other two films, "Say Anything" and "Jerry Maguire."
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Paul Westerberg is the lead singer and songwriter for the Replacements, a critical darling during the eighties.
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Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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