"I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw."

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Zola Jesus

#Song Quotes #Trying Quotes #Honest Quotes

“During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.”
“But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.”
“If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.”
“It feels like an amazing opportunity to positively impact the world. That's what I hope to do.”

Source : "Tyler Oakley’s First Ever Australian Interview – Exclusive". Interview with Monique Pueblos, herbrainvomit.com. 2013.
“Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.”

Source : "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.
“I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.”
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
“New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.”

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