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"I
guess you write songs so that you don't have to tell people what you're
about." -James
Iha- |
"The [Smashing Pumpkins] music is a lot of
things. It's powerful, it's kind of insane sounding, it's kind of poppy sometimes,
it's power poppy. A lot of it's overly dramatic, sad... you don't really
think about it. You just put it together and throw it out and see if anyone
likes it." -James Iha |
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"You just get a dominant front person and you
don't ever hear about the band or the records. It's like, what did people
talk about Nirvana? They talked about Kurt, they talked about Courtney Love,
heroin abuse and smashing guitars and punk rock. They never talked about how
good the songs were, how good the lyrics were." -James Iha, 1996 |
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"Grunge is dead. And that's what we came from.
The big rock bands in America - I won't even name them - they're all third
generation handed-down Nirvana clones. From that aspect, I think rock is
dead."-James Iha, Kerrang, 1998 |