Jeff Mangum Quotes - Page 2

For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music from around the world as something that fits into their lives or their psyche in any way. So I tried to present it in a different way to give it more of a chance to sink into people's heads.

Jeff Mangum

People, Giving, Different

Source: pitchfork.com

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I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

Jeff Mangum

College, Louisiana, Easy

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I guess my path feels sort of different now... I don't know what's going to happen, but I certainly want to make music a bigger part of my life in the future than it has been for the last couple of years.

Jeff Mangum

Couple, Different, Path

Source: pitchfork.com

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My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.

Jeff Mangum

Song, Brain, Next

"Neutral Milk Hotel". Interview with Mike McGonigal, pitchfork.com. February 11, 2008.

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I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

Jeff Mangum

Home, Records, Situation

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Latest quotes from interviews

"I'm trying to find peace in the world, as it is. I'm feeling this sort of slow stripping of my mind, like the layers of an onion. I'm starting to see through all these little structures that have been imposed on me by my society that tell me how I'm supposed to view my life and the world. What I'm supposed to find to be important and what is not. Sometimes you see through so much of it that you feel like you're just a leaf blowing on the wind."

- Jeff Mangum,

pitchfork.com, added Dec 6, 2017

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