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Kurt Vile Quotes

All of my surroundings influence my songwriting. It's autobiographical, although I leave enough space so it's relatable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 3, 1980

Topics

Space Influence Enough Songwriting

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

Life Live Fog Story You Play

I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.

Villain Butt Always Used Show Some

There are so many things calling you toward that computer or TV. You forget, we're a family. We're all supposed to spend time together and talk.

Family Time Together You Forget

If I wear bright colors or something, I'll tie all my hair back. I don't want to look too like 'Girls Next Door.'

Door Colors Hair Look Back Want

The first time I saw Istvan Szabo's 'Mephisto,' I came out and I was in shock. I was shaking.

Stellan Skarsgard

Time First Time First Out Saw Shock

Music is such a big part of my life.

Life Music My Life Big Part

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

Nice Everyone Side Friendly Quite

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

Live Music Experience Me Writing

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

Mother Music Focus Voice Hearing

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Support Space Think Driving You Go

You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It's kind of exciting. I don't punch in. I don't have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you're lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it's really a great job if you can work.

Work Great Job People Interesting

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Society Free Trying You Try First

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