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" Even when I haven't played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It's like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live. "

Kurt Vile

Down

I Can

Live

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Dark

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Right

" People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it. What am I gonna do? "

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Help

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You

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Kurt Vile

Feel

General

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" I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie - and then it comes out, and you're like, 'Aww, that was cool, but it wasn't quite as big a deal as I thought it would be.' "

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Cool

Big

" That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers. "

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" If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever. "

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McDonald

Whatever

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