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Mark Hollis Quotes

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“I can’t imagine not playing music, but I don’t feel any need to perform music and, I don’t feel any need to record music.  I’m really quite happy just to play one note, and just to hit it at different volume levels.  And just, y’know, see how long it will resonate for, before it stops.”
— Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis – On Music 1998( A Transcript) ( A Transcript) ( A Transcript) ( A Transcript)
Tagged: Talk Talk, Music, Performing
“I like silence.  I get on great with silence, you know. I don’t have a problem with it.  It’s just silent, y’know.  So it’s kind of like well if you’re going to break into it, just try and have a reason for doing it.”
— Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis – On Music 1998 ( A Transcript) ( A Transcript)( A Transcript) ( A Transcript)
Tagged: Talk Talk, Silence
“When you improvise, and you play something for the first time, you kind of play it at its peak. And if you kind of like play something and then you think ‘oh I like that’ and then you replay it, you never quite get it.  It’s like the thing of demoing, y’know if you demo a track, no matter how badly you try to demo it, there will always be a quality within it that you subsequently would try to recreate, which you shouldn’t do.”
— Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis – On Music 1998 ( A Transcript)( A Transcript)
Tagged: Talk Talk, Music, improvisation, Demo
“Before you play two notes, learn how to play one note, y’know. And that, it’s as simple as that really.  And don’t play one note unless you’ve got a reason to play it.”
— Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis – On Music 1998 ( A Transcript)( A Transcript)
Tagged: Talk Talk, Music
“It's only radical in the modern context. If we'd have delivered this album to the record company 20 years ago they wouldn't have batted an eyelid.”
— Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis And Talk Talk's Brilliant, Nuanced, Stubborn Visions
Tagged: Talk Talk, Radical
“I choose for my family. Maybe others are capable of doing it, but I can’t go on tour and be a good dad at the same time.”
— Mark Hollis, Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis dead at 64[Updated]
Tagged: Tour Life
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