"I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene."

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Source : Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

Glenn Branca

#People Quotes #Musician Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.”
“Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes out of some sense of longing. It could be called dissatisfaction; it could be called distance. There are many kinds of wanting to get closer to something else, whether that is an idea, a body, a place. Longing is also one of the conditions people approach reading, visual art, or music with - it's to satisfy that sense of longing. It's part of my job, on some level, to grapple with that notion.”
“Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.”
“Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.”
“You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.”
“There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.”
“When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.”
“I love writing, composing and producing music. It's what I enjoy doing most in life and I create so much material that crosses over so many different styles that it would be virtually impossible to release all under one name/project. That's mainly why I like to create aliases and work on production for other artists as well. It just make sense. I just want to be able to have an outlet for all the different styles of music that I like working in.”

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