"I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Hamilton Leithauser

#Song Quotes #Depressing Quotes #Fun Quotes

“[Kids] are just like annoying short people”
“Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.”
“Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.”
“Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. Iâ€™ve done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess itâ€™s realizing I am part of the world around me.”
“Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. And life is so full of opportunities. You just need the sensitivity. And create chances for other people to laugh. Laughter should be one of the most valued, cherished qualities of human beings - because only man can laugh, no animals are capable of it. Because it is human, it must be of the highest order. To repress it is to destroy a human quality.”
“When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.”
“Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.”
“The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.”

Source : "Abbott rejects sell-out claims". www.abc.net.au. August 28, 2011.

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