"I really want to try to protect as much as I can, to safeguard peoples' first experience with a record. Because I want you to get the whole thing as one integrated piece, because it's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them."

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Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

Jonathan Meiburg

#Trying Quotes #Music Is Quotes #Protect Quotes

“There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.”

Source : Morehead v. N.Y. ex rel. Tipaldo, 298 U.S. 587, (632), 1936.
“Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances.”

Source : F. F. Bosworth (2001). “Christ the Healer”, p.159, Chosen Books
“You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.”
“I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.”
“I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up those unconscious, instinctual urges that you then have to deal with. I'm like a Frankenstein of analysis. I'm able to go back and forth between the world I've created inside of myself and the real world, which is something I think a lot of people who write and paint and make art do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.”
“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”

Source : "Mind/Body Problems" by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2004.
“That the things that have impacted me most are not news articles written by older people that I would have no relation to; the things that impact me most are things written by people closer to my age. And I wanted to write things in a way where somebody my age could read it and feel like they are holding somebody's hand and be with somebody.”

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