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Lou Barlow
American
Musician
Born:
Jul 17
,
1966
Band
Because
Me
Music
People
You
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I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.
Lou Barlow
Guitar
Focus
Long
Become
Bass
Enough
Keyboards
One Thing
Stay
Never
Drums
Anything
Specialist
Play
Thing
It's cool to think about nursing, because a lot of people decide to go into it later in their lives. I could slip into school to be an LPN or an RN as a middle-aged man, and it wouldn't be unusual.
Lou Barlow
Man
People
School
Think
Nursing
Later
Slip
About
Could
Unusual
Because
Go
Lot
Decide
Middle-Aged
Middle-Aged Man
Cool
Lives
To bicker over what could have been is silly.
Lou Barlow
Silly
Could
Over
Been
Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet.
Lou Barlow
You
People
Meet
Totally
Could
Like
Within
Hip
Istanbul
Who
Ever
Ton
I hear people telling me a lot that the production of that particular record - 'One Part Lullaby' - really influenced them. I'm like, 'What? We were dropped from the label after that!'
Lou Barlow
Me
People
Telling
Record
Part
Dropped
Particular
Like
Were
Hear
Hear People
Lot
Label
Influenced
After
Them
Really
Production
Lullaby
I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it keeps me engaged.
Lou Barlow
Me
Everyone
Know
Because
Close
Close Proximity
Proximity
Realizing
Working
Engaged
Keeps
Need
I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized.
Lou Barlow
Walk
Recognized
Finish
Through
Without
Audience
Being
Show
I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful.
Lou Barlow
Good
First
Healthy
Sick
Our
Feels
Wrote
Because
Always
Till
Truthful
Happily
Play
I'm the Folk Implosion's biggest fan.
Lou Barlow
Folk
Fan
Biggest
I wrote a song for my sister's wedding.
Lou Barlow
Song
Sister
Wedding
Wrote
At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.
Lou Barlow
Me
Guitar
Mother
Made
Picked
Learn
Because
How
Up
Play
If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.
Lou Barlow
You
Guitar
Nice
Strings
Ukulele
Classic
Pretty
Put
Feel
Gets
Heavy
Low
Warm
Really
Regular
Baritone
I prefer to read into other people's songs what I want to hear in them.
Lou Barlow
People
Other
Songs
Read
Hear
Want
Prefer
Them
When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.
Lou Barlow
Mom
Me
Nice
Teenager
Ukulele
Got
Really
Baritone
Every show I play is like a little celebration of something in my life that has gone really well.
Lou Barlow
Life
My Life
Gone
Every
Something
Like
Well
Celebration
Little
Really
Show
Play
My family is the epicenter of my life.
Lou Barlow
Life
Family
My Life
Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.
Lou Barlow
Life
Music
Everything
Immersed
Write
Songs
Domestic
Domestic Life
Literally
Either
Play
Play Music
J. makes me laugh. He's incredibly dry and has a pretty harsh sense of humor that I enjoy.
Lou Barlow
Me
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Enjoy
Incredibly
Harsh
Laugh
Pretty
He
Dry
Makes
I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak.
Lou Barlow
Speak
School
Thought
Say
High
Able
High School
Mentally
Disabled
Because
Anything
Teachers
Shy
It's kind of crazy how music helped me overcome the anxieties that I have.
Lou Barlow
Music
Me
Crazy
Overcome
Kind
How
Anxieties
Helped
I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music.
Lou Barlow
Music
Engineer
Own
My Own
Haphazard
Most of the times that I've written break-up songs, it's been different because I was always trying to get back to something: get back to a situation or talk my way or sing my way back into the relationship.
Lou Barlow
Relationship
Situation
Back
Way
Something
Songs
Written
Most
Talk
Sing
Because
Always
Been
Times
Get
Trying
Different
I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them.
Lou Barlow
Needs
Experience
Remember
Clever
Own
Too
Lyrics
Totally
My Own
Songs
Learned
Get
Wants
Them
For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear.
Lou Barlow
Work
Me
People
Situation
Everyone
Considering
Enter
Bear
Baggage
Along
For The People
Massive
Equals
Because
Lot
Any
Preconceptions
Where
Anything
Might
Hard
Bring
Bringing
I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had.
Lou Barlow
Alienate
Considered
Would
Would-Be
Had
Supposed
Most
Audience
Core
Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable.
Lou Barlow
People
Made
Uncomfortable
Songs
Idea
Liked
Making
Being
Loved
Confrontational
Really
Early
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