Paul Westerberg Quotes

• Although, my experience when I’ve been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I’m too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you’re halfway away from it.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Depression

•  Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they’re no artist. If it’s in your blood, it can’t stop flowing.

   

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Musician

• I didn’t wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We’re all that forever, and I’ve just grown older. I mean, I haven’t

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wake Up, Morning

• I don’t think there’s anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it’s not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window… but I can’t stop.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Listening

• I forever felt that I’ve fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock ‘n’ roll and too old to be brand-new. It’s hard.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, Feelings

• I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you’re going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Myself, Read, Reading

• I have my own language and it’s high time I put a little of it out there.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Language

• I think of the Replacements only when they’re brought up to me. For two years, I’m at home, they don’t really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I’m not ashamed of anything we did.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Mind, Thinking

• I think it should be evident by now, but I’m as lost as anyone.

  Paul Westerberg

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  Tags in Thinking

• I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Announcement

• I’m hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Think

• I’m beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expectation

• I’m not dissatisfied with my place in it rock ‘n’ roll.

  Paul Westerberg

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  Tags in Dissatisfied

• I’ve had more people in my life take their lives than… I think it’s out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Music

• It’s fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it’s still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I’m still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Enjoyment

• Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn’t aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Play, Records

• Right now, it hasn’t affected my music other than the fact that I don’t have time to write any of it. That’s no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I’d have to quit.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Myself

• Actually, I’ve done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew – everything. Then you see what happens and you’re already committed to dates. I’m just sort of putting out feelers this way.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Commitment

• A rock’n’roll band needs to be able to get under people’s skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Able

• It’s like, it’s up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Song

Paul Westerberg (29)

Birth:	31st December, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Musician, Singer

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