Eef Barzelay famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Girl #Song #Nice
A lot of my own problems are because I'm so financially irresponsible. I'm so stupid when it comes to money. And I'm ashamed of it.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Stupid #Problem #Ashamed
My dream right now is - and I don't know how to do it, and I don't know if it will work exactly - but just this sort of vague aspiration to start some kind of website where people send in their stories or poems, and me or perhaps some other people turn that into music. And then by the end of the year we make a record and actually put it out. Like a band, but the band is actually a combination of the musician and the fan. I think that's a very 21st-century way of doing it.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Dream #Thinking #People
The beauty in the death that awaits us, I find a timeless beauty in that.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Timeless
Human beings really are this virus upon the earth, and the earth's running a fever, you know? If you step away from that kind of inherent human sentimentality and just look at it neutrally, the universe is neutral morally.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Running #Being Real #Earth
The live thing is separate from the record for me. I have to figure out a way to make the songs work live. It's always going to be different than it is on a record, because every record I've made, there are people playing parts on there that are not going to be coming on tour with me. As much as still feeling connected to it, it's more like rediscovering.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Song #People #Feelings
I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Men #Thinking #People
A big part of making a good record is really getting a vibe, and a vibe is a mysterious thing. The vibe kind of exists in the air in the room. It's not just all the stuff you put on there, and the specific notes and arrangements and all that. That's like half of it. The other half is just the air, and just the spirit.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Be Kind #Spirit #Mysterious
I just want to keep living the dream. So I'm telling you, my friend, help me keep living the dream.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Dream #Helping #Help Me
I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Trying #Tough #My Way
Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the really sacred American popular music out of the hands of corporate advertisers. And those walls have come down, but now I think the logical reaction to that is that you just start making your own music.
-- Eef Barzelay

#Wall #Thinking #Commodity

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