Alan Vega Quotes

Alan Vega (25)

Birth:	23rd June, 1938
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Painter, Sculptor

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Alan Vega is also an established sculptor. Prior to the announcement of the 70th birthday release in 2008, Vega was thought to have been ten years younger. Vega also long claimed to be half-Catholic, but later, in a 2008 interview with The Jewish Chronicle, admitted he lied to "fuel the myth".

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Today's Anniversary - 22nd May

Births

• 1969 - Cathy McMorris
• 1938 - Richard Benjamin
• 1910 - Johnny Olson
• 1934 - Garry Wills
• 1979 - Vivian Greene

Deaths

• 1948 - Claude McKay
• 1983 - Albert Claude
• 1922 - Elizabeth David
• 1932 - Isabella Augusta
• 1802 - Martha Washington

• Experience really does make you better, man.

  Alan Vega

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• You’re gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I’m starting to enjoy Eminem.

  Alan Vega

• We’re just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we’re doing, and the reason why is that we’ve spent 30 years doing it. There’s nothing that can replace that.

  Alan Vega

• We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo’s, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I’m finally gonna die onstage, that’s where it’s going to be!

  Alan Vega

• Usually I’m the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

  Alan Vega

• That’s why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there’s no in-between. So it’s kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

  Alan Vega

• That’s what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

  Alan Vega

• That’s what my music… I’m working on a solo record right now, it’s gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I’m probably gonna be rapping on it.

  Alan Vega

• That’s something – you laugh about Eminem… It’s funny, man, because I didn’t like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy’s for real, and I like his lyrics!

  Alan Vega

• People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn’t sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

  Alan Vega

• Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That’s the beautiful thing, man, we’re actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

  Alan Vega

• Lately I’ve been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

  Alan Vega

• John Coltrane – I’ve been listening to the ‘Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I’ve lived!

  Alan Vega

• It’s easy for me to say that now, now I’m a father, I’ve got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I’m a different person. Well, I’m still the same person, but I’m different.

  Alan Vega

• It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that’s what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

  Alan Vega

• I’m showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we’ll see.

  Alan Vega

• I probably won’t be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That’s when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

  Alan Vega

• I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there’s an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they’re real people, ya know?

  Alan Vega

• I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I’ve been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I’ve got to do something with you.

  Alan Vega

• I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

  Alan Vega