Dan Mangan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.
-- Dan Mangan

#Regret #Nice #Real
Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that's obviously really exciting. But what's most exciting is the idea that we're all experiencing something that's bigger than us.
-- Dan Mangan

#Cheer #Ideas #People
I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.
-- Dan Mangan

#Believe #Men #Self
I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.
-- Dan Mangan

#Art #Couple #Book
I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.
-- Dan Mangan

#Art #Thinking #People
I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.
-- Dan Mangan

#Past #Thinking #Hypothetical
I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.
-- Dan Mangan

#Kids #Phones #House
If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.
-- Dan Mangan

#Strong #Talking #Noses
I used to be so young, how did I get so old?
-- Dan Mangan

#Used #Young #Used To Be
It's the sick and twisted male fantasy that we want classy ladies out in the world that make us look good, but in the bedroom, men want subservient women who please all of their whims. It's the typical bullshit of male ego.
-- Dan Mangan

#Men #Sick #Bullshit
You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.
-- Dan Mangan

#Acting #World #Weight
With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.
-- Dan Mangan

#People #Suffering #Playing Music
To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing about someone who has passed away, when they can't tell the other side of the story.
-- Dan Mangan

#Self #Stories #Sides
The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.
-- Dan Mangan

#Ideas #Halos #Fantasy
When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative.
-- Dan Mangan

#Iphone #Years #Three
I think articulating things through song is a good way of letting people know that they're not alone.
-- Dan Mangan

#Song #Thinking #People
The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the mouth of somebody else that they don't know the weight or gravity or intensity that something they've made has brought out in somebody else's life. It's simultaneously flattering and humbling. It makes me so thankful that I've been so lucky to be able to do this work.
-- Dan Mangan

#Artist #Lucky #Weight
I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.
-- Dan Mangan

#Book #Reading #Thinking
I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second and live in the shoes of a character, which is a special thing.
-- Dan Mangan

#Book #Character #Thinking
More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one.
-- Dan Mangan

#Brilliant #Incredibles #Appreciative
I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.
-- Dan Mangan

#Book #Kids #Novel
When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any topic - anything that you hold dear like the relationship between a father and son or a mother and daughter, what it means to be married or what it means to be single or what it means to be a free spirit or what it means to be an artist - if you just put a halo on something and say it's untouchable - "that is special and that is perfect" - you immediately close your eyes to the truth of it, because the truth is that nothing is perfect.
-- Dan Mangan

#Daughter #Mother #Father
You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.
-- Dan Mangan

#Looks #Want #Sides
There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just as much because they will teach you something.
-- Dan Mangan

#Embrace #Teach #Okay
If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.
-- Dan Mangan

#Art #Subtle #Ifs

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