Sxip Shirey famous quotes

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.
-- Sxip Shirey

#Song #Art #Writing

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.
-- Sxip Shirey

#Kids #Obsessed

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.
-- Sxip Shirey

#Way #Folks #Approach

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.
-- Sxip Shirey

#Ironic #Stuff #Rockers

I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.
-- Sxip Shirey

#Thinking #Ice Cream #Order

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.
-- Sxip Shirey

#Doors #Play #Hip Hop

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
-- Sxip Shirey

#Way #Urban #Tradition

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.