Marnie Stern Quotes

• Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don’t.

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• Most of my playing style is very on point – the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight – so I’d like to explore something looser and less precise.

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• I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn’t figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

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• I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song.

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• People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don’t sell any.

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• Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don’t want to be doing that.

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• Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there’s a lot of finger tapping going on there.

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• I know of dude-bands who’ve brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.

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• I don’t want to be seen as this math-rock geek.

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• For stage I try to dress down, because I want people to take me seriously.

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Birth:	18th March, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Musician

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