The Good Quote
Open menu
Quotes
Authors
Topics
More
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
Home
Authors
Josh Silver
Musician
About the author
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Being
We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Environment
We don't pump out albums eight months apart from each other.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Months
We do do such a variety, especially if you consider all five records.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Variety
I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Time
#Now
I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#People
#World
#Fact
Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Deep
#Selling
I definitely have favourites in terms of albums.
Josh Silver,
Musician
Peter has the biggest mouth, so it goes to be a mouth contest.
Josh Silver,
Musician
Yeah, I guess everyone's had a reasonable amount of sex in their lives, some less than others.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Sex
One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Nothing
No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.
Josh Silver,
Musician
My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Negative
That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#People
#Moments
In regards to the reaction to Life Is Killing Me, I would say that I'm never happy about anything.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Life
#Killing
The World Coming Down tour was around four years ago, and other than the wear and tear we've all sustained in the last four years, nothing much has changed.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Nothing
#Years
#World
I used to love Bach.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Love
To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Trying
#Apples
I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Artists
#Idiots
I really believe that we're a studio-based band, and I have always thought that.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Thought
I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#People
I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Life
#People
#Negative
I just want to focus on one thing at a time.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Want
#Time
#Focus
I do my job in Type O Negative.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Job
#Negative
Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Pretty
We think that we have great potential but never reach it.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Potential
We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Being
#Deals
#Options
We're from New York, so we have a decent following.
Josh Silver,
Musician
We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#People
Well, I love Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't be offended by it. I only intentionally robbed them three or four times.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Love
Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Time
#Style
#Writing
So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Right
#Life
#People
#Art
#World
#Killing
#Sales
We still have a very good core following, and the shows have been almost one hundred percent sold out.
Josh Silver,
Musician
You know, musicians aren't very stable, in case you hadn't noticed.
Josh Silver,
Musician
#Musicians