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Top 25 Evan Dando Quotes (2025 Update)

Evan Dando Quote: “I guess I’m about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don’t feel quite so insecure.”

1. “I guess I’m about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don’t feel quite so insecure.”

Evan Dando Quote: “But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn’t bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.”

2. “But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn’t bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.”

Evan Dando Quote: “I’ve got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won’t be able to hear them.”

3. “I’ve got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won’t be able to hear them.”

Evan Dando Quote: “I don’t like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it’s important I take mushrooms and acid. They’re certainly not addictive, so I can’t rule that out.”

4. “I don’t like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it’s important I take mushrooms and acid. They’re certainly not addictive, so I can’t rule that out.”

Evan Dando Quote: “For me, it’s all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.”

5. “For me, it’s all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.”

Evan Dando Quote: “You know more about me than I do about myself, that’s probably true.”

6. “You know more about me than I do about myself, that’s probably true.”

Evan Dando Quote: “See, to me, rock’n’roll doesn’t have any point. It’s just fun. It has a million different angles and they’re all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.”

7. “See, to me, rock’n’roll doesn’t have any point. It’s just fun. It has a million different angles and they’re all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.”

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Evan Dando Quote: “I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.”

8. “I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.”

Evan Dando Quote: “I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.”

9. “I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.”

Evan Dando Quote: “It is hard, though, ’cos record labels love to boss you around. I won’t let them do that anymore.”

10. “It is hard, though, ’cos record labels love to boss you around. I won’t let them do that anymore.”

Evan Dando Quote: “My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat – and I’ve been able to do that for 20 years. So I’m completely content.”

11. “My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat – and I’ve been able to do that for 20 years. So I’m completely content.”

Evan Dando Quote: “I don’t write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That’s how I write songs. I’ll need a line and I’ll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.”

12. “I don’t write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That’s how I write songs. I’ll need a line and I’ll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.”

Evan Dando Quote: “When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of ’em.”

13. “When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of ’em.”

Evan Dando Quote: “When I write a song, it’s all about the riff – the riff first, then the words come later.”

14. “When I write a song, it’s all about the riff – the riff first, then the words come later.”

Evan Dando Quote: “Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I’m going to be a lot stricter from now on.”

15. “Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I’m going to be a lot stricter from now on.”

Evan Dando Quote: “The best songs I write in 20 minutes.”

16. “The best songs I write in 20 minutes.”

Evan Dando Quote: “Even the bands I dig don’t have a history of attaining mass consumption.”

17. “Even the bands I dig don’t have a history of attaining mass consumption.”

Evan Dando Quote: “CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don’t smell of anything.”

18. “CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don’t smell of anything.”

Evan Dando Quote: “Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?”

19. “Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?”

Evan Dando Quote: “I lie around and play guitar, that’s something I do for sure. In fact that’s all I do, I think.”

20. “I lie around and play guitar, that’s something I do for sure. In fact that’s all I do, I think.”

Evan Dando Quote: “I’d forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn’t even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.”

21. “I’d forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn’t even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.”

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Evan Dando Quote: “Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.”

22. “Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.”

Evan Dando Quote: “Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn’t taken a vacation.”

23. “Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn’t taken a vacation.”

Evan Dando Quote: “When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly – constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.”

24. “When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly – constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.”

Evan Dando Quote: “I need the money. People don’t understand how little money you make in a band.”

25. “I need the money. People don’t understand how little money you make in a band.”

Evan Dando Quote: “I have to make rock records occasionally.”

26. “I have to make rock records occasionally.”

Evan Dando Quote: “It’s better when you have your wife with you, more fun.”

27. “It’s better when you have your wife with you, more fun.”

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