Bill Callahan
Bill Callahan
Bill Callahanis an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth3 June 1966
CountryUnited States of America
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We want him for the fall. Beating the White team or the Red team ain't the big thing right now. It's more important to get him ready for the fall.
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The plan going in was to throw. It always was, and it always has been.
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Those are the little things. The little things come back and beat you. They just got us out of our rhythm and we just didn't respond. That's the bottom line. They out-hustled us, outplayed us, out-everything-ed us. They wanted it more than we did.
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We know a number of businesses are hurting on both sides of the slide and in 1998 there were a number of businesses involved in this. I think the longer this goes on the more likely businesses will take advantage of something like this.
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I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.
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I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music.
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From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.
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Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.
Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
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When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.
integral
My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.
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James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.