"We would drive around in my parents' GMC Savannah van and listen to the CD of 'Stand by Me.' ...When I think of bubblegum '50s pop, just bright, golden days when everyone was optimistic, I think of late '90s San Francisco as a very happy, golden time." - Patton Magee
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"The older I get the more fearful I become, which you think would be the opposite. I spent the first part of my life feeling that I was indestructible and life was going to keep working out for me. I think part of 2020...was this felt sense that things can go horribly, horribly wrong." - Jenn Wasner
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"The one that really, forever, sticks with me is meeting Elliott Smith. It was '95 or '96. Jon Brion...had been introduced to Elliott and went out and filled a shopping bag with Elliott Smith albums and distributed them to his friends. I was fortunate that I was among them." - Grant-Lee Phillips
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Chrissie Hynde once said, “If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are or who you are. If you draw, you draw. I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.” And so it is that we arrived at this week's Needle Drop Record.
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"I knew that I was going to have to get out what was bothering me, so that part was clear. I didn't know what things were going to sound like, but I knew what I wanted them to feel like. ... One of the things that stuck out the whole time was me trying to find joy." - Brandee Younger
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