Colin Meloy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
-- Colin Meloy

#Bells #Cups #Bandits
No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.
-- Colin Meloy

#Teenage #Want #Unrequited
We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.
-- Colin Meloy

#Beautiful #Children #Pain
It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
-- Colin Meloy

#World #Share #Coexistence
As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.
-- Colin Meloy

#Saint #Nancy #Benediction
And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...
-- Colin Meloy

#Home #Heart #Trying
All instruments sound fantastic in a church.
-- Colin Meloy

#Church #Sound #Fantastic
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.
-- Colin Meloy

#Mother #War #Father
I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.
-- Colin Meloy

#Strong #Loyal #Selling
You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.
-- Colin Meloy

#Rocks #Stuff #Records
There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.
-- Colin Meloy

#People #Lines #Draws
Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.
-- Colin Meloy

#Ambitious #Kind #Advent
Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
-- Colin Meloy

#Race #Expectations #Should
When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.
-- Colin Meloy

#People #Expectations #Buying
If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.
-- Colin Meloy

#Writing #Wine #Iron
I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.
-- Colin Meloy

#Thinking #Order #Mainstream Culture
It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.
-- Colin Meloy

#Song #Nice #Relief
I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.
-- Colin Meloy

#People #Lines #Want
It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.
-- Colin Meloy

#Facts #Resources #Files
Early on I was a lot more unsure of myself on stage. When our band The Decemberists was getting bigger audiences I was more concerned about alienating them, so I wasn't as willing to take risks and do weird stuff on stage. But once you get more accustomed to it you tend to have more fun with it and not worry about being pilloried for acting out. Whenever you play in front of 400 or 500 more people than you're used to it's always a weird, transitional period.
-- Colin Meloy

#Fun #People #Worry
There's a little less pressure in doing a solo tour, in some ways a simpler setup. A little bit more relaxed. But then also there's also - doing the big tours is exciting, because you get to put on the big show and everything. But I don't know if I would prefer one over the other. I guess it's no secret that I just don't like touring in general, but it's sort of the reality of the business these days.
-- Colin Meloy

#Reality #Secret #Exciting
Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.
-- Colin Meloy

#War #Thinking #Band
I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.
-- Colin Meloy

#Book #School #Average

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