Trevor Dunn Quotes
"I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Fame, Want)
"If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated."
- Trevor Dunn
"If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Music, Want)
"It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Music, Age, Learning, Listening, Open)
"It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Culture, State)
"Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas."
- Trevor Dunn
"Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Music, Communication)
"Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Now)
"I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Surrealism)
"Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Culture, Marketing)
"I take all of my music seriously and personally."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Music)
"There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Musicians, Reason)
"Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however."
- Trevor Dunn
"NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Chaos)
"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Guitar)
"Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Being)
"Bungle is definitely a priority right now."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Now, Right)
"But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Control, Balance)
"Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: People, Personality)
"I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Hope)
"Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Time, Will)
"I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Family, Fish)
"I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Music, Poetry, Love, Literary)
"I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Love, Being)
"I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Love)
"I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Hope, Personality, Style)
"I need to broaden my horizons."
- Trevor Dunn
"I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: School)
"I have no inflated ideas about success anyway."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Success, Ideas)
"Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much."
- Trevor Dunn
"I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Car, Now)