~*~ Quotes ~*~
" The Wallflowers are a cohesive unit of skilled musicians whose music is full of sincerity (live, on record, and in principle)
thats undeniable. Wheather you like them is irrelevant. Respecting them is the key and if you don't you should"--Musician Magazine
" Absoulutly I think the name Dylan worked against me, and I actually found some kind of power in that, I still do...I do not mope, and I do not complain.
I've driven my own path here, and I'm on it and it's fine, but if people think it must be easy....."--Jakob
"It's fun in the sun, endless touring, endless summer with the Wallflowers. It's the feel-good tour of the summer.Bring the family."---Mike
" I guess this explains why the people at Lilith Fair haven't called me back 2yrs in a row. I'll try next year though"--Jakob Dylan
" We don't have any rehearsed banter or light show or anything like that. It's maily just a music show, plus the occasional mud restling"--Jakob
"The oddest things happen on tour"--Rami
( when askes about writing( as in song writing ) on the road )
" Sometimes on a tour like this things can get sort of spread out, you don't get to see
everybody so much, alot of times on a day off I'll write Mike a letter and put it
under his hotel door, so ya we do some writing."-- Jakob
"If I bring out a song and no one is into it, they pretty much say,'That last one was great'."--Jakob
" Yeah, like grunge rockers of '96 would have my head on a platter. It's entertainment, and if you feel good and feel like doing shit like that
then throw a drum stick into the crowd, you know, throw a guitar pick, stand on the monitors, whatever...you don't need to be afraid
of that kind of thing"--Mike
" I'll write songs about anything, it doesn't matter as long as you care about what your singing about"--Jakob Dylan
" I get asked all the time 'what was your dad like as a parent'? and i say I'm 27 years old, I'm not a crackhead, I don't go on afternoon talk shows and spill. I mean you can pretty much figure it out for yourself that he did
a desent job"--Jakob
" I mean maybe you don't have to repeat all this...deep weirdness"--Rami
" No other topic thrills me as much as me, lets talk about me "---Jakobs (JOKINGLY commenting on his "ego"..like he has one! )
"When I'm nearby, nearby is my favorite food."--Jake
"Nothing says love like a frog"--Jakob Dylan (i have NO idea..just a random quote i thought was interesting..to say the least )
"He's just cuter than the rest of us. That has nothing to do on parental units"--Mike ( on why he thought jakob got the cover of Rolling Stone )
(Jakob on the filming of "One Headlight") "This shot coming up is not actually me. People think it's me, but it was the only acting they asked me to do in this video, and I tried
three times and fell everytime, so we had to, uh, we had to get a stuntman.The stuntman was cold"--Jakob ( i think he is so funny when he's sarcastic... )
"Hell, yeah the boy is fine. He's a beautiful man, but i feel bad because he's also a really good songwriter
he should be getting the attention, but it shouldn't be about his face."--Fiona Apple ( on Jakob's looks )
"That was a great record and Jakob was a brillian musican and songwriter"--Mark Williams on The Wallflowers
" Not only did my group get a reputation for being difficult, we had a (first) record that completly stiffed. That was odd. A person in my buisness putting out a record that stiffs? It must've been a piece of crap. We sold 40,000
or something. I was not unique to anybody anymore. I was a joke"-- Jakob
"I think everyone grew up with their own influences and thats sort of the magic of The Wallflowers. We get together and
throw it all in the pot and let it simmer"--Mike Ward
"Wyclef is a hardcore Bob Dylan fan, and I'm a hardcore Jakob Dylan fan",
Pras from the Fugees explains, "I love the Wallflowers".
Semisonic's song " Gone to the Movies" has a line that goes, " and the Wallflowers CD ended a half an hour ago ". ( i thought it was interesting )
Merideth Brooks had this to say about "One Headlight", " WIWT" which means wish-I-wrote-that. ya we know Merideth
James Iha said BDTH was his #1 favorite CD of the year! ( i know, its not really a quote..i should start a page for this "non-quote" stuff huh? )
At the MTV MOVIE AWARDS Denise Richards had this to say about Jakob Dylan: " Jakob Dylan..ooohh...easy on the eyes..."
On the House of Style thing after the MTVMA someone asked Jakob if he thought (fashion wise) anyone "sucked" during the evening, he repiled,
" I just try not to suck, myself"
This is from comedian Richard Lewis " Jakob Dylan's eyes are so big and blue you could dock a small ship in them."
" I honestly don't remember what it was about, but i guarantee you it was stupid" (laughs)--Jakob Dylan on the first song he wrote at age 18
( on staying grounded )
" Were actually really not, we've completly lost it, we have these enormous ego's that are tremendous to be around, it's sometimes pretty
fantastic, were not keeping it together, we've kinda lost it" --Jakob
"So it hurts, I'll live"--Jakob ( on his cronic back problems, form those damn buses! )
" Nobody's house is heaven, thats what heaven's for"--Jakob
" Well certainly songs that i write, i'm in a lot of those songs, ofcourse. But there's little songwriter tricks, you dress yourself up as different people
so you don't feel as wide open. I think that songs that are "I" "I" "I" "Me" get kind of obnoxious after a while, so you invent little charatcers"--Jakob D.
" People think that I have it easy, but I've been hacking away at this for nearly seven years with zero success, so I don't feel like it's really helped me--considering how easy you would think somebody like me would have it."
" I don't think there should be any boundries in songwriting"--Jakob
" I never thought it was inevitable, I just thought of it as joining a comapny. You do this then you get paid. I just want to feed myself"--Jakob
" i coach Little League....No i don't. But i do fantasize about that, only because I reached a peak in my life during Little League."--Jakob
( on the famous sultry pout Jakob gives ) "It's kinda an inspiration as it happens, sometimes I'll just be there and some motivation will come and I'll just feel it, like a bolt
and I'll just throw out a random pout i guess"...and Mike adds "Sometimes if I haven't returned his little letters heslips under the door he'll just get pouty
what can I say.."
"I'm not the biggest fan of making them (music videos) so far as long as the treatment doesn't say I have to dress up in a monkey suit or drive a police car, you can
guarantee I'll be there."--jakob
(refering to "One Headlight" on Artist Cut) "...real train going above there...theres that damn guitar agian"--Jakob Dylan
"If I could just say three words they'd be fashion, fashion, fashion! You know that George Micheal lyric, 'Sometimes the clothes do not make the man'? Well i disagree."--the ever sarcastic Jakob Dylan everyone!
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