Corin Tucker Quotes

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.

I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.

The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

Things that excite me are these four different bands: Wire, with a song called 'Champs,' Misfits, with a song called 'Hybrid Moments,' R. Stevie Moore, and Wipers 'Wait A Minute.'

The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

In the early and mid 1990s, every musician I knew was obsessed with Helium. The 'Pirate Prude' EP and 'Pat's Trick' played on repeat at nearly every gathering I attended. And we didn't just listen to these records - we discussed them, the worlds they opened, novelistic and strange.

I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

The bands that we've found we have something in common with are bands like The National or Tegan And Sara, and I feel like that's because all three of us come from more alternative rock backgrounds.

For all its reverb and defiant noise, the sound of Black Tambourine barely reached past the borders of Washington, D.C., in the early '90s.

When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment.

I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.

I've always been indie.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.