"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

-- H. L. Mencken

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“I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like Pullhair Rubeye, or something a little bit more organic than that.”

Source : "Avey Tare Talks New Solo Album, Animal Collective's Future, Crocodiles". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. August 19, 2010.
“A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.”
“So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.”
“It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.”
“As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.”
“I think what all the Universal monster movies are defined by, and what makes them very special, is that it's really the only genre entirely unto itself, in which you fear the monster and fear for the monster. That's a very hard thing to do. To fear for and fear at the same time is extremely unique.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
“We all have a wrong idea of ourselves. I am always changing, and I will continue to change. So, I never try to describe, define or judge myself.”
“People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.”

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