Latest Devendra Banhart Quotes from Interviews

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• When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

  Devendra Banhart

  Art, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I hate having my photograph taken and I try to keep that in mind when I'm photographing other people. But the best photos that I've taken are the ones when people have forgotten that I'm there. If I'm in a recording studio with a musician, for example, maybe I'm not photographing them in the middle of a take but I can just get that stolen moment of them resting and they glance over to me.

  Devendra Banhart

  Hate, Taken, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.

  Devendra Banhart

  New York, Listening, Velvet

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

• I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

  Devendra Banhart

  New York, Moving, Cities

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

• 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

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

  Devendra Banhart

  Profound

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

• Now everybody knows about this thing that's my secret. It was my thing, the music I turned to when I was alone and needed it. It's what helps me get through these times. It's just between me and music, and now it's been shared with the world.

  Devendra Banhart

  Secret, World, Helping

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

  Devendra Banhart

  People, Effort, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

• 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

• You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

  Devendra Banhart

  Art, Long, Lists

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

• You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.

  Devendra Banhart

  House, Kind, Environment

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Devendra Banhart

  People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

  Devendra Banhart

  People, Different, Language

  Source: pitchfork.com

• "I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

  Devendra Banhart

  Thinking, Mediation, Variety

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I find Mexico exciting to visit, but I think [it] is looked down upon. Mexico is not a very respected place, unless you're Mexican, and even then it's something of a love/hate relationship.

  Devendra Banhart

  Hate, Thinking, Mexican

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Within America, there are extremely different place. I'm not saying it's one homogenous color. It's obviously an incredible place. There's no other place like it, and it's incredibly diverse.

  Devendra Banhart

  Color, America, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com