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Sufjan Stevens Quotes

American - Musician | July 1, 1975 -

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

Love Change Music Mind Singing Care

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Faith Government Morals Wealth Laws

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

Work Art Anxiety Doing My Own Own

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.

Life Best Conflict Obstacles Learn

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

Ideas Listening Think American Top

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

Architecture World Start Think You

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

Music Space Language Find I Can Use

I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

Car Bike Broken Remember House Real

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.

Work Music Challenge My Own Try Own

Every time Jimmy Scott sings, it's the same but slightly different. I don't know how he does that or where he gets that from. I think it's instinct. Nothing he does is by chance; he's in complete control of what he's doing. He's just beautiful and unique.

Beautiful Time Control Chance Think

I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it.

Music Myself Challenge Youth Trying

I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.

Night Always Holy Hated

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