James Yoshinobu Iha quotes Born: 03/26/1968 Country: usa

• And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period. (James Iha) [find/start/take]
• But I always remember there were African Americans at my school and they got it a lot worse, for where I grew up. (James Iha) [remember/school]
• But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am. (James Iha) [look/music/being]
• Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music. (James Iha) [start/music]
• I feel like I don't have to say how horrible racism is. But there are so many horrible things out there; it just blows my mind. (James Iha) [mind]
• I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. (James Iha)
• I guess in Japan I blend in more. (James Iha) [more]
• I had a roommate from... a while back, who was a friend of mine from Tokyo, and I go over there every once in a while. (James Iha)
• I knew it would be kind of weird to make a record out of this band, for anybody to make a solo record out of this band. (James Iha) [weird]
• I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there. (James Iha) [time]
• I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band. (James Iha) [music/heavy/music/right]
• I was starting to produce a little bit, and write for other people before I got the call to play for A Perfect Circle. (James Iha) [people/perfect]
• I was with the Pumpkins for 12 years and it was kinda hard to get my material in for, you know, for whatever reasons. (James Iha)
• If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs. (James Iha)
• It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done. (James Iha)
• It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian. (James Iha) [time]
• It's probably getting our old drummer back and actually playing as a band. And, I don't know, it sounds like what we do best right now. (James Iha) [right]
• Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues. (James Iha)
• No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too. (James Iha) [nice]
• Other kids were made fun of for being wimpy or being gay or whatever. Kids do awful things, and I always just try to put it behind me. (James Iha) [being/being/gay]
• So playing with A Perfect Circle is kind of a different thing. They've started as their own. It's their own band. (James Iha) [perfect/thing]
• So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience. (James Iha) [thing/people/people/experience]
• The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot. (James Iha)
• There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work. (James Iha) [people/music]
• We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that. (James Iha)
• We've been doing it for 10 years, so we're not about to pay attention to what's popular now to change our sound. (James Iha) [attention/change/sound]
• Well, I always hope that I'm a role model. (James Iha) [role]
• Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time. (James Iha) [normal/normal/time]
• Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band. (James Iha) [computers]
• Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people. (James Iha) [people]
• You can't really compare because I played with these guys for 2 months and the Pumpkins I've played with for 12 years, so I can't really compare it. (James Iha)

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