Daisy Berkowitz Quotes

"Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar."

"It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important."

"It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise."

"It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story."

"Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own."

"We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished."

"Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle."

"But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention."

"I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates."

"Each member of the band has varied influences,and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase."

"If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth."

"It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show."

"Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple."

"We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years."

"I don't feel left out because of all the activity around me and I don't force myself to do something drastically new, musically speaking, to compete."

"I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting."

"I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour."

"I think enthusiasm for our music will be the spark that ignites the fire under the people that hate it and think we're a bad influence on kids."

"I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage."

"We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise."