Dave Alvin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
-- Dave Alvin

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Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

Dave Alvin famous quotes

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