I think that purists may regard the ’80s and Jerry Goldsmith being the quintessential example of film scoring, but that was also a very prominent type during a time when soundtracks were purely songs, and there was very little score.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
The solo album is really my way of branching out and doing my own thing. I’m mostly known for playing other people’s music, so this is a way to just do something that is purely from my heart and my creativity. So it’s really exciting.
World War II was the last ‘pure’ war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to conquer the world, who tried to exterminate people.
Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.
I’d love to claim the title of ‘songwriter’ or ‘intellectual,’ but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.
The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it’s also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn’t play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
When ‘Pale Fire’ came out, that album was a big friend of mine. I’ve just always purely been a fan of El Perro del Mar.
