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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.
- East Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
- Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
- Familiarity Breeds
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020