#us

Teach us to give and not to count the cost. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#cost #count #give #teach #us

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music. ↗

— James Iha

#end #even #fan #i #listening

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.' ↗

— James Iha

#away #coming #could #did #feel

But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am. ↗

— James Iha

#any #as far as #asian #band #barriers

I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music. ↗

— James Iha

#different #different kinds #i #kinds #like

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. ↗

— James Iha

#artist #bands #emerging #i #i love

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful. ↗

— James Iha

#circus #context #i #i think #kind

It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done. ↗

— James Iha

#been #done #enough #factor #force

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that. ↗

— James Iha

#being #big #easier #guitar #guitar player

You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do 'em well. ↗

— James Iha

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