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My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.
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My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.
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There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
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But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
Michael Stipe
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If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!
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They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.
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Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
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When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.
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I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.
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I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
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So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
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