"An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song."

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Source : "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.

Avey Tare

#Song Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Listening Quotes

“I had a tumor. But it was great.”
“Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.”
“Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.”
“I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing.”
“Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.”

Source : Russell Kirk (1986). “The Assault on religion: commentaries on the decline of religious liberty”, Univ Pr of Amer
“We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.”
“I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.”
“My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.”

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