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" My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away. "

Kurt Vile

Music

Right

" I proved myself with 'Smoke Ring.' It was me maturing. I made a good pop record. "

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Smoke

Made

" I like to laugh at dark things. "

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Dark

Things

" I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze. "

" Influence is all osmosis. "

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Influence

" Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources, but it's not too over the top. "

" When I was a teenager, I was mostly getting tapes and CDs, and somebody hipped me to the fact that you can get things on vinyl that are not necessarily available on any other fomat. "

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Somebody

Fact

" 'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it. "

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Embrace

You

" I've gotten a lot more paranoid in my older age. "

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Paranoid

Age

" I think 'She Drives Me Crazy' is hilarious and good. "

" I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot. "

" I get to come home to my family. It's awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life. "

" Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny. "

" I'm just used to the L.A. music life. "

" I'd say the best thing the Violators and I have done is to dominate the U.S. with an arsenal of smash hits. "

" There comes a time when you've toured a ton, and a time to be inspired again. Listen to awesome jazz records that are mellow with no words, and just sit there and read a book, or space out on your couch. And eventually, all that inspiration comes. "

" I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself 'Philly's Constant Hitmaker' when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones' first album, 'England's Newest Hit Makers.' "

" I really like Cold Cave. "

" I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all. "

" Even when I played in little league as a kid, I liked making friends, but I didn't want to be there, really. "

" When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not. "

" If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind. "

" No offense to Boston, but I was glad to get out of there. I think it's just because I'm from Philly. Honestly, the blue collar side of each are pretty similar in ways, but something about the makeup of your brain, Philly versus Boston. It's a lot different, in weird ways. "

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

" I like New York. I like Philly. I like San Fran. I like when people are stoked. But Chicago's a real music town, and they're really good to us there. There's just something in the air there; people are just really stoked about music. Every time I go there, I have a great time, and the fandom is really heartwarming. "

" Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you. "

" Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives. "

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Everybody

Goes

" Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater. "

" I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves. "

" 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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