J Mascis Play Quotations

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just to try to mimic the dynamic [of the drums]. Drums seemed a lot more expressive. [I was] Trying to emulate the feeling of playing the drums on the guitar - I guess that's why I played it so loud.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.