QUOTES

Rip It Up, Issue 203, 1 July 1994, Page 45

QUOTES

“When I first got the script for Reality Bites, I said, ‘I don’t know why you need a movie about a bunch of white middle class kids complaining. They have absolutely nothing to complain about besides their own mediocrity’. I ETHAN HAWKE “You can’t say people are not hurt by those gangsta rappers who speak out graphically about what’s happening in’ the community.” STEVIE WONDER opposing urban violence and supporting gun controls. “It’s a funny thing, because my hands want to play pop songs but my head is : attracted to despair.” | TANYA DONELLY, Belly. i “Every time you sample notes, you’re | ! also sampling the spirit of whoever j you’re sampling. Like if I sample a j i Herbie Hancock loop, I feel I’m also \ sampling the emotions he was experil•.. , . I encing when he was playing. SPEECH, Arrested Development. I “I can’t say I ever feel sexual, even if it I looks that way — I think to call my I ! power purely sexual is to belittle it.” j BRETT ANDERSON ! “I have to say that the Smiths’ back | catalogue says nothing to me about my life. For me, it’s like a fish dying very : slowly on the harbour wall.” MORRISSEY "It’s not acting-they pay us for. It’s | something else.” JASON PRIESTLEY : “Every band that’s sold four million records used to open up for Soul Asylum.” DAVE PIRN ER “If our fans are out there driving down i that information superhighway, then we : want to be playing at the truck stop.” i Aerosmith’s pro new technology.” STEVE TYLER.