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" My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab. "
Fred Armisen
Reverie
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" All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay. "
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Phones
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Change
" As far as value goes, obviously it's nicer to be in an environment where you feel comfortable. But it's also clear that it's probably not the most realistic thing. "
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Environment
Value
You
" I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get very far. "
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Music
Playing
Most
" I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile. "
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Like
Smile
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" I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can. "
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Music
Want
Lucky
" One person who was interesting was Jello Biafra, who was - of all things - very professional! "
Fred Armisen
Interesting
Who
Professional
" I learned at 'SNL' that it's a bummer to bum people out. "
Fred Armisen
Out
People
Bum
" I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled. "
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Play
Fun
Time
" I've met Tony Danza. He was really nice. And he looks... I feel like he hasn't aged. He looks exactly the same. He's just Tony Danza. He's exactly the same as he's always been. "
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Nice
Always
Like
" Missing something doesn't help anything. You can only look at the future, what you can keep doing. "
Fred Armisen
Missing
Look
Doing
" I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend. "
Fred Armisen
Terrible
Think
Husband
" I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me. "
Fred Armisen
Never
True
Play
" There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people. "
Fred Armisen
Judgment
Some People
Enjoyment
" Bill Hader does a really good impression of me. "
Fred Armisen
Me
Bill
Impression
" I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy. "
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Music
Black And White
Fall
" I feel like Miami is way, way too hot. "
Fred Armisen
I Feel Like
Hot
Feel
" I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings. "
Fred Armisen
Art
Because
Enjoy
" I will admit that I purposely stress myself out. But I think I like stressing myself out. There's a glamour to, like, 'I've got to get to the airport!' I just like the caricature. "
Fred Armisen
Admit
Think
Stress
" I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?' "
Fred Armisen
Live
Fast
House
" I think Ian MacKaye is everything that I always wanted to be. "
Fred Armisen
Always
Everything
I Think
" I really like Au Revoir Simone. "
Fred Armisen
Really
Like
" I feel bad for everyone I've gone out with. "
Fred Armisen
Feel
Bad
I Feel
" I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it. "
Fred Armisen
Think
School
People
" Everywhere I go, somebody says something to me. It's really nice. "
Fred Armisen
Nice
Somebody
Something
" For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project. "
Fred Armisen
Work
Better
You
" El Perro del Mar sort of accompanied my time at 'SNL.' To concentrate and focus, I would play the bass to one of her songs from her third album. "
Fred Armisen
Play
Bass
Focus
" Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV. "
Fred Armisen
Music
Loved
Listening
" When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way. "
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Great
Think
People
" At 'SNL' there's framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It's linear. It just keeps going through all these people, and then you're at the end of it. "
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End
You
Pictures
" Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent. "
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Dead
Opening
People