"It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs."

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Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

Colin Meloy

#Song Quotes #Nice Quotes #Relief Quotes

“Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.”
“I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people ... to me, that's what the emerging game is all about.”
“Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic .”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.”
“It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.”

Source : "George and his dragons". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.
“If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.”
“Excess makes the heart grow fonder...”

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