Quotes by Craig Finn

Craig Finn

An album doesn’t mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.

Mean

People

Song

As a writer, if you have something on a page, you can start moving it around and get something you like. But if you have a blank page, it’s just gonna be a blank page.

Moving

Being on a microphone nightly has made me better at what I do, made me better able to sing a little bit, but also more confident at trying it.

Trying

I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.

Band

Eagles

Song

I don’t have a problem rhyming “bar” with “car” – I do it all the time – but sometimes it doesn’t feel right.

Bars

Car

Rhyming

I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn’t really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you’re spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.

College

Home

School

I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this house in upstate [New York]. I still have the story, but I got 15,000, 20,000 words in and it was like, This is falling apart. I can’t figure out.

Fall

New York

Writing

I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist’s producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn it in to him, and he or she said, “That was pretty good, it might go better.” Maybe that’s what I’ll try to find.

Editors

Thinking

Trying

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

Community

Song

Thinking

I think the biggest thing – and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art in general – is when you have this moment where you hear a song or whatever and you say, “Hey, I’ve felt that exact way as a human being,” and there’s no easy way to describe it.

Art

Book

Song

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Art

Band

Bars

Beer

Bigs

Bits

Book

Break

Car

College

Community

Crazy

Different

Down And

Drinking

Drug

Eagles

Editors

Enjoy

Fall

Fascination

Firsts

Fun

Guitar

Guy

Heart

Holy Days

Home

Kids

Littles

Long

Mean

Memories

Moving

My Wife

Needs

New York

Nice

Numbers

Offering

People

Pockets

Pressure

Problem

Real

Records

Rhyming

School

Song

Stuck

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Quotes by Craig Finn

Craig Finn

An album doesn’t mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.

As a writer, if you have something on a page, you can start moving it around and get something you like. But if you have a blank page, it’s just gonna be a blank page.

Being on a microphone nightly has made me better at what I do, made me better able to sing a little bit, but also more confident at trying it.

I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.

I don’t have a problem rhyming “bar” with “car” – I do it all the time – but sometimes it doesn’t feel right.

I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this house in upstate [New York]. I still have the story, but I got 15,000, 20,000 words in and it was like, This is falling apart. I can’t figure out.

I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist’s producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn it in to him, and he or she said, “That was pretty good, it might go better.” Maybe that’s what I’ll try to find.

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

I think the biggest thing – and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art in general – is when you have this moment where you hear a song or whatever and you say, “Hey, I’ve felt that exact way as a human being,” and there’s no easy way to describe it.

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