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I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#band #band members #based #bus #chosen

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#ask #band #band leader #bar #else

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#allowed #men #people #songs #women

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#cease #did #lawyer #lincoln #politician

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#break #constructs #coverage #distorted #extensive

The songs become the show, which is how it should be. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#how #should #show #songs #which

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#follow #internationally #more #nationally #rules

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#jesus #much #really #swallow #thing

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#every #follow #get #idea #line

It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts. ↗

— Seymour Hersh

#body #counts #folks #shades #vietnam