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Sufjan Stevens Quotes

American - Musician | July 1, 1975 -

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

Art Myself Thought Artist Tax Say

I'm a very self-conscious person; I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances; it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

Think Weird Feel Body White Person

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

Father Memories Listening Living

I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

Weird Sewing Apartment Storage Just

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.

Music Art World Think You Know

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

Experience People World Internet Way

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

Think Musicians Television Stay Off

I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's kind of an open-ended concept. It doesn't have to be taken so literally.

Think Kind Places Because Like Even

I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.

Music Mind Being Other Ways Popular

I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young.

Think Interesting Look Young Hard

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

You Say Places Way Write Hard

I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.

History I Am Me Remember Geography

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