"I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something special about 'Young Lion'. It's pretty different from any song that we've had before because the vocals are kind of between two different very simple instrumental piano melodies and it's almost like something that we call a vignette, it's sort of like a miniature."

-- Rostam Batmanglij

#Song Quotes #Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.”
“I know that there is a difference of opinion, but we stand united with the Standing Rock Nation in wanting the most highly militarized blockade in North Dakota history to be lifted, because it's functioning as a successful economic sanction.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.”
“I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.”
“Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
“I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.”

Source : Julie Berry (2013). “All the Truth That's In Me”, p.138, Penguin
“I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.”

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