Justin Vernon Quotes

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• The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

  Justin Vernon

  Sadness, Feels

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• Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

  Justin Vernon

  Dust, Wind, Feels

  "Bon Iver's Justin Vernon Talks About His Band's New Album". Interview with Jess Gitner, www.npr.org. June 22, 2011.

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• But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

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  Thinking, Long, Long Love

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• I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

  Justin Vernon

  Art, Unique, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• No matter how much you care about a person, you have to be able to know that you can sit down at night and be happy with who you are without that person. That's really hard when you're a lonely emo kid.

  Justin Vernon

  Lonely, Emo, Kids

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

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  Mind, Woods, Building

  "Woods". Song by Justin Vernon, 2009.

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• I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

  Justin Vernon

  Trying, Remakes, Knows

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

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  Perception, Important, Realizing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The weird thing is I feel like I'm shedding skin so fast and I'm growing and I'm becoming a new person so quickly at a rate that I'm comfortable with, yet it seems faster and more steady than an other time in my life except 16, 17, 18. I just have to sit down and listen to the ideas I'm having. And I'm not worried.

  Justin Vernon

  Ideas, Skins, Growing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.

  Justin Vernon

  Country, Thinking, Events

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous.

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  Loving You, Dangerous, Love Someone

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm trying to think about stuff like that: How can a show not be just a whining guy with a guitar.

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  Thinking, Guitar, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• At once i knew i was not magnificent.

  Justin Vernon

  Magnificent

  "Song: 'Holocene'". 2011.

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• I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

  Justin Vernon

  Mean, Trying, Complicated

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A lot of people are like, "How are you going to re-do it?" I'm not worried about what people are going to say because you know people are gonna be like, "It doesn't sound like this... It sounds like this." I'm just going to make music that I know I'm supposed to make.

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  People, Sound, Worried

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't know, it's dorky. Just like quotes and stuff. Something I want to see everyday or something I want to be there. I don't know. I can put a hole in the wall if I want. It's mine. It's very simple. It's a very tiny house, but I can do whatever I want to. I can rip up the terrible vinyl floor and recycle it. Just create a good space. A quiet place to be.

  Justin Vernon

  Wall, Rip, Simple

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was all the things I wanted my music to be, but yet it wasn't grand and it wasn't obtuse - it wasn't overshooting, it wasn't undershooting, it was precise. The lyrics and the way that I was able to extract and excavate emotion within me.

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  Able, Way, Emotion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm trying to be like, "Hey, dude, you're super happy, this is everything you've ever dreamed of - if you don't have somebody to hold hands with right now, everything's going to be OK, bro."

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  Hands, Trying, Hey

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

  Justin Vernon

  People, Insecurity, Irony

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Life sort of shrinks and you get older, I don't know if I'm going to have time to do all the things and be all the places as I want to be. Wisconsin's really sacred for me, so no matter what happens, where I end up permanently living, I'll be spending weeks and weeks at least of the year, no matter how many years I live, in the northwestern Wisconsin area.

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  Years, Want, Sacred

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere.

  Justin Vernon

  Names, People, Atmosphere

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel like this thing [that] we're rocking back and forth like we're stuck in a snow bank and we all sort of know it. I feel like people are getting less and less pretentious and less and less hip - hopefully.

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  People, Snow, Hips

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What happens between people is so misunderstood even between the people who are having the sex.

  Justin Vernon

  Sex, People, Misunderstood

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a great victory just as a person. I overstepped countless obstacles by creating that record. And the record's a metaphor for the personal steps I [took] throughout the past year.

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  Past, Years, Creating

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It makes sense that that's part of the story and everything, but that's part of any story of any record - where was it record and how long and what were the people doing. I think people want to know where these events are made. That's why I like the word "record."

  Justin Vernon

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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