Mascis J Quotes & Sayings

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew. — Malcolm Forbes

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability. — J Mascis

Well, you are a wolf, I don't think it's a good idea to start the habit of you sleeping in the bed, you know, with all the shedding and what-not. — Quinn Loftis

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All labels are offensive in some way. — J Mascis

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great. — J Mascis

'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around. — J Mascis

I know how men in exile feed on dreams — Aeschylus

Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over. — Henry Rollins

Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time. — J Mascis

Alessandro! Will!!" He could hear Brianna's voice a few seconds before his head came up through to the next floor.
Stubborn, bloody woman! he cursed.
"Oh God, Will!" Bree screamed. "What happened?" She rushed towards them, coughing as she grabbed for her son. He shifted his weight to hand him over to her, but the movement sent another bolt of screaming pain from his ankle up to his leg and Alessandro lost his footing, falling back into the basement.
Alessandro!" Bree screamed, and then he heard no more. — E. Jamie

People have to do what they want to do. — J Mascis

Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience? — Margaret Atwood

But maybe those things are like background noise if you're from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do. — Susane Colasanti

Nature's not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. — Ivan Turgenev

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo. — J Mascis

Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities. — Frederick Lenz

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings. — J Mascis

It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just to try to mimic the dynamic [of the drums]. Drums seemed a lot more expressive. [I was] Trying to emulate the feeling of playing the drums on the guitar - I guess that's why I played it so loud. — J Mascis

I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs. — J Mascis

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion. — J Mascis

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here. — Helen Reddy

I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool. — J Mascis

I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know. — J Mascis

I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors ... who specialize in terrorism. — Barack Obama

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at. — J Mascis

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer. — J Mascis

I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff. — J Mascis

probably the best-known tenet of modern moral philosophy: the doctrine that there is an unbridgeable gulf between facts and values, between descriptions of what is and prescriptions of what ought to be. — Peter Singer

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough. — J Mascis

Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different. — J Mascis

I'm sorry about today."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"I was bored and lonely."
"Some would call that the human condition. — Michael Nava

I've never liked rehearsing too much. — J Mascis

I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes. — J Mascis