Devendra Banhart Quotes

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• I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

  Devendra Banhart

  Mistake, Waiting

  Song: Won’t You Come Over, Album: Mala, 2013

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• Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

  Devendra Banhart

  Trying, Comfort, Has Beens

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• If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life. It's a very beautiful thing and a very real thing but it's not something to not take seriously and it's not something to take seriously.

  Devendra Banhart

  Beautiful, Real, Sensitivity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

  Devendra Banhart

  Doe, World, Mystery

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

  Devendra Banhart

  People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

  Devendra Banhart

  Profound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

  Devendra Banhart

  Age, Purpose, Valuable

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

  Devendra Banhart

  Fire, Hands, People

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• People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

  Devendra Banhart

  Art, Successful, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

  Devendra Banhart

  Song, Thinking, Feminist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

  Devendra Banhart

  Time, Real, Dancing

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• Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

  Devendra Banhart

  Art, Good Art, Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always noticed talking about lyrics is like talking about a duality. It's like a Gemini time every time I talk about one line. Because each line, of course, means different things to different people, millions of interpretations. With me, I always see two sides. I just see things split into two.

  Devendra Banhart

  Mean, People, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

  Devendra Banhart

  Song, Book, Love You

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

  Devendra Banhart

  War, Today, Heard

  "Song: 'Heard Somebody Say' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.

  Devendra Banhart

  Ocean, Swim, Important

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

  Devendra Banhart

  Grieving, Leaving, Crow

  "Song: 'Cripple Crow' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

  Devendra Banhart

  Nerd, Records, Geek

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.

  Devendra Banhart

  People, Giving, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.

  Devendra Banhart

  Song, Real, Video

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.

  Devendra Banhart

  Texas, California, Voting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have.

  Devendra Banhart

  Kids, Boys, Littles

  "Song: 'Little Boys' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• There are plenty of things in vaults that didn't sell in its time. So much stuff. But slowly these companies start to get a hint that these things have some value.

  Devendra Banhart

  Hints, Stuff, Vaults

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."

  Devendra Banhart

  Writing, Eye, Feet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

  Devendra Banhart

  Thinking, Impact, Video

  Source: pitchfork.com

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