"The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become."

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Source : "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

Dan Bejar

#Ideas Quotes #Musician Quotes #Singers Quotes

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
“There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.”
“Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.”
“I've always felt somewhat out of place with other kids my own age", said River. "I was constantly reminded by people's reaction to our names and our diet that we seemed weird to them.”
“Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.”
“Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.”
“You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.”
“I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!”

Source : "Pee-wee's Big Adventure". Interview with Pee-wee Herman, www.imdb.com. 1985.

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