Mark Lanegan Quotes

• I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

  Mark Lanegan

  Life, Musician, Publicity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

  Mark Lanegan

  Flawed, Persons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

  Mark Lanegan

  Inspirational, Music, Names

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

  Mark Lanegan

  Drunk, Sick, Tears

  Song: St. Louis Elegy, Album: Blues Funeral, 2012

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• The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

  Mark Lanegan

  People, Judging, Doe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

  Mark Lanegan

  Moving, People, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think a myth is created from truth.

  Mark Lanegan

  Thinking, Myth

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

  Mark Lanegan

  Beautiful, Light, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

  Mark Lanegan

  Thinking, Finding Yourself, Roles

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

  Mark Lanegan

  Mean, Play, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

  Mark Lanegan

  Running, Fall, Risk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

  Mark Lanegan

  Want, Six, Figures

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

  Mark Lanegan

  Past, Heard, Wells

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

  Mark Lanegan

  Children, Littles, Mystery

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

  Mark Lanegan

  Suicidal, Tough Times, Tough

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• Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It keeps me alive. When I'm doing something alone, that is mine, I know how it is. But when I'm working with someone else, I also see the view from the other, and usually learn something new, try something different. This is very important to my happiness.

  Mark Lanegan

  People, Interesting, Important

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.

  Mark Lanegan

  Play, People, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

  Mark Lanegan

  Singing, Stuff, Quiet

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• You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

  Mark Lanegan

  Taken, Thinking, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time.

  Mark Lanegan

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.

  Mark Lanegan

  Years, Behind You, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

  Mark Lanegan

  Player, Bass, Absence

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.

  Mark Lanegan

  Writing, Groups, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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