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Swans are majestic, beautiful ...

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

I'm just as comfortable perfor...

I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

When I first started doing the...

When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

I'm more interested in pulling...

I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are 'light,' just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

I could never release somethin...

I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

I never wrote poetry, just pro...

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

Many of the songs were written...

Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a life of their own and I didn't worry about accuracy or biographical truth, so it's not a problem.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

I went to art school and never...

I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

I am definitely less and less ...

I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to 'make it' in the stinking music business, to become 'famous' etc, and it disgusts me.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

The music takes you. It has to...

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

I have my own record company. ...

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

I don't want to sound like eve...

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

I like loud electric guitars b...

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

You find ways to push yourself...

You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

The goal is ecstasy, but I don...

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

Michael Rolfe Gira 35 quotes

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