Arto Lindsay Quotes

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one. - Arto Lindsay

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. - Arto Lindsay

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them. - Arto Lindsay

We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer. - Arto Lindsay

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it. - Arto Lindsay

To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people. - Arto Lindsay

There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here. - Arto Lindsay

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play. - Arto Lindsay

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. - Arto Lindsay

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