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Jeff Mangum

"I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little too big... the issues seemed too large for me to confront intuitively through songwriting. I kept pushing it and pushing it. There are so many issues about being human and why people inflict pain on each other. There were seeds of all these things I hadn't dealt with. With just the personal issues, I felt I was in over my head, but then to write about it... To write you have to have at least a little bit of confidence you know what you're talking about."

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Jeff Mangum

#Song Quotes #Pain Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.344, Essential Library
“I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
“Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.”
“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion. In this respect believers understand unbelievers, skeptics, and atheists better than they understand themselves. Unlike unbelievers, they regard the impossibility of faith as necessary, not accidental ...”

Source : "A Karl Barth Reader".
“Pessimism does win us great happy moments.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.88, 1st World Publishing
“I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.”
“My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.”
“Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.”

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