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Bill Callahan

American Musician

Born: Jun 3, 1966

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I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming. Bill Callahan

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I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me. Bill Callahan

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. Bill Callahan

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You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier. Bill Callahan

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was. Bill Callahan

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To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it. Bill Callahan

There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me. Bill Callahan

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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. Bill Callahan

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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. Bill Callahan

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Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think. Bill Callahan

Writing World Think Songs Like Ticket

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something. Bill Callahan

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Music is a social act. Bill Callahan

Music Social Act

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle. Bill Callahan

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