Alex Chilton Quotes

• I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

  Alex Chilton

  Records, Firsts, Flukes

  "A Man Called (Self) Destruction — The Life and Music of Alex Chilton" by Binky Philips, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.

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• The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

  Alex Chilton

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

  Alex Chilton

  Song, Writing, Expression

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• Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

  Alex Chilton

  Lonely, Stars, Nice

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• Nunca me he considerado un buen compositor. Hay un montón de gente que son buenos compositores, pero no creo que yo esté en el club. Lo que hago bien es interpretar, a veces canto bastante bien, me acompaño bien y hago arreglos bastante bien.

  Alex Chilton

  Thinking, People, Clubs

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• I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

  Alex Chilton

  Country, Player, Years

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• Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

  Alex Chilton

  Needs, Want, Baggage

  "Musician Alex Chilton dies at age 59". www.today.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

  Alex Chilton

  Años, Intentar, A Veces

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• Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

  Alex Chilton

  Years, Waiting, Drug

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