Quotes by King Tuff

About King Tuff:

King Tuff is a recording artist on Sub Pop Records and Burger Records.
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That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.

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I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world.

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I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy.

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Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A.

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My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.

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I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

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Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some o...

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I love the sound of '70s glam records. I love that snare sound. The recordings I like, it's all based on if the snare sounds good. The drums have to sound great.

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I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?

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You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

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I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

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I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself.

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I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music.

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It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made.

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I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span.

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Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.

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I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.

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Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

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I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.

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The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.

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Author Bio

  • NameKing Tuff
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMusician