Mike Doughty famous quotes

It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do.
-- Mike Doughty

#Hipster #Artist #Spirituality

ELIXIR Strings are bright and so sturdy. I'm absolutely in love with them.
-- Mike Doughty

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I was incredibly different as a child from everybody else. But really, I was just who I was. I was born that way.
-- Mike Doughty

#Children #Different

Have people that listen to you and that you listen to. Helping other people is an amazing means of getting out of yourself, being available to people who are in pain or need help, being connected.
-- Mike Doughty

#Pain #Mean #Helping Others

My family was reasonably liberal. Some kids I grew up with, their parents forced them to join the military, and my parents never, ever even brought it up. I imagine just looking at me, they were like "Not an army officer."
-- Mike Doughty

#Military #Kids #Army

One thing about hanging out with a bunch of clean drug addicts, everyone is just super similar to you. So that has been awesome. I've made a lot of friends who are coming from an extremely similar place, even if they seem externally very different. I know I am an outsider in a number of ways, but I don't feel weird.
-- Mike Doughty

#Drug #Different #Outsiders

My own experience with that brief moment where I had videos on MTV was that nothing was ever good enough. When you hear people say, "I was unhappy the whole time," that sounds ridiculous. I think this is a theme among people who seek fame, not just musicians. There are a lot of bitter, disappointed people.
-- Mike Doughty

#Thinking #People #Unhappy

In terms of getting super successful, every once in a while, something very different gets successful and than everything that comes after is kind of like it, maybe. That's what happened with Nirvana, which was so out there and changed everything, and then so much after became imitative of them.
-- Mike Doughty

#Successful #Different #Kind

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Violence is my last option.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality

I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.