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I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

~Alex Chilton

Topics: Been Biggest Business Did Ever First First Thing Guess Life My Life Record Series The First Thing Thing

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I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

~Alex Chilton

Topics: Accompany Arrange Being Club Fairly Good Myself Never Other People Perform Pretty Pretty Good Sing Sometimes Songwriter Songwriters Think Thought Ton Well

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I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

~Alex Chilton

Topics: Appropriate Blues Country Early Every Few Here Late Like Lot Memphis Players Record Remember Seems Spent Studying Styles Where Will Years I Remember

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If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

~Alex Chilton

Topics: Any Anything Coming Conviction Decent Done Expression Feels Genuinely Good Good Song How Out Person Song Spirit Then Writing You Your

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Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

~Alex Chilton

Topics: Come Just Lick Love Me Put Really Right Something Sometimes Suddenly Try Up Words Works Years

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The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

~Alex Chilton

Topics: Alone Am Collaborating Come Else Focused Fun Get Ideas Liked Make More Music Others People Piece Some Someone Things Think Total Trying Up Which Written I Think I Am I Can

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It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

~Alex Chilton

Topics: Bad Been Dream Like Never Woke

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 28th, 1950

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