Quotes by Buzz Osborne

Buzz Osborne

American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter

Lived from: 1964 -

Category: Music

Born: 25 march 1964

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  • By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
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  • I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.
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  • I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.
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  • I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
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  • I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.
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  • I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That's how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.
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  • I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.
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  • I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case.
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  • I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn't need to work again.
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  • I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.
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  • I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
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  • If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
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  • It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.
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  • Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.
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  • One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.
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  • Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved... I'm happy and relieved by this.
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  • The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
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  • The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.
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  • To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.' Indeed it is.
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  • To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'
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What are the most famous quotes from Buzz Osborne?

The two most famous quotes from Buzz Osborne are:

  • "By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing."
  • "I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works."

When did Buzz Osborne live?

Buzz Osborne is still alive and was born in 1964.