#ant

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#bush #corporations #debt #destruction #george

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#gentleman #however #length #life #live

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#different #elegant #every #every time #moon

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#come #come and go #constant #expression #go

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#cover #days #following #footsteps #found

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#girlfriend #i #me #out #put

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that. ↗

— Chad Smith

#flea #funk #into #like #meters

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination. ↗

— Chad Smith

#being #coming #cool #coordination #course

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player. ↗

— Chad Smith

#avenues #better #brother #california #detroit

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together. ↗

— Chad Smith

#bass #chemistry #come #get #get together