Justin Vernon Quotes - Page 3

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• I don't feel anything about it. I really like "Staring at the Sun" - I like that song a lot. I haven't heard a lot of their records, but I know that they're cool. I know that the people who listen to them are really awesome and I like those people, so I know that I would like the band, I just don't own their records.

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  Song, People, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think subconsciously or selfishly I knew that I was supposed to do something. It was like a thumping or a throbbing saying, "Yes, this what you've been waiting for." But you're a little dim to those spiritual thoughts when you're dumb like me. So I did have to get a little bit of a kick. I played it for a bunch of people and I think their reactions were warm and deep enough that they gave me the courage to get [the record] out there.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, People

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• If I completely understood what was going on and I understood these songs, they wouldn't make sense to play live anymore. They're still enigmatic for me. I'm still searching in the songs as they are. That's what's actually been the most fun about playing and touring for me is that there's still a lot of caverns in the songs where you can go and hide out different nights.

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  Song, Fun, Night

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I told myself I never wanted to rent again. Even though it's a battle, I'm lucky cause I'm living in a cheaper part of the country. I just told myself I'm never going to do this again. I'm never gonna work, I'm never going to pay somebody rent again. I'm never going to sign another lease at least.

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  Country, Battle, Pay

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

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  Play, Sick, Band

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• I don't want the big flashing lights and red carpet, like, "Here comes another Bon Iver album!" I just want it to be my bedroom-y thing. But that'll take a while to figure out.

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  Light, Albums, Want

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• I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music.

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  Inspiration, Guitar, Sitting Down

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• The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

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  Song, Years, Words And Music

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• With all the touring and distractions going on, I would get a sound together but I wouldn't have time to work on it. So I sat on the road with the sketches and saw how they revealed themselves emotionally.

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  Together, Sound, Saws

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• As a fan of Kanye West, working with him is insane.

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  Insane, Fans, West

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• Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good placement for the songs because I want to be exclusive. I don't want to just sign it away because I don't want songs to lose meaning, but I'm also...I don't care [that] Wilco sold songs to Volkswagen. That's great. They probably drive Volkswagens.

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  Song, Rocks, Indie Rock

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.

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  Religious, Giving Up, Iconic

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Moving is what the deal is. I wish I could spend more time in places, but I find I either want to be in a place for an afternoon or like 10 days or a month. I don't like the two-day thing, so I just wish the drives were shorter so you could wake up, take a walk, and spend three hours in one part of the town. I always thought there should be 28 or 30 hours in a day - you know what I mean?

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  Moving, Mean, Two

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• I'm a pretty shy guy when it comes to girls and sex.

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  Girl, Sex, Guy

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• We got in after a ten hour drive after sleeping for four hours. I'm not complaining here. I'm really not complaining. Ten hour drive to get here, we unload, we sound check, we get here we take photos, we do this. I haven't eaten anything today. It's like... And I'm not even hungry.

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  Sleep, Complaining, Four

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.

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  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The whole point of being happy is not feeling like you have a job. I'm sure there are days where you're at your job and you're like, "Oh my god, this is hard."

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  Jobs, Feelings, Like You

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• If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The record's about not her. It's about my struggles through years of dealing with the aftermath of lost love and longing and just mediocrity and just bad news, like life stuff. And in the [record], where the title comes from, the lyrics are actually a conversation between me and another girl, not this Emma character.

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  Girl, Lost Love, Struggle

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• Apple is not thinking different anymore, they are getting worse by the day. They've become bottom-dollar and you can see that transition easily.

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  Thinking, Apples, Transition

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• It's dangerous when music gets cornered by anything.

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  Dangerous, Cornered

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• When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred years, or a place that has been, or that was - in your imagination. I think that also embodies the American spirit. You are looking for what you can call "a place."

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  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not with anybody, I don't have time for dating. Not to get too personal, but it's weirdly harder to meet new people now. But for the first time in my life since I was a little kid, I'm not so concerned about it.

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  Kids, People, Dating

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• More and more into natural feelings rather than convoluted feelings or tastemaking or what have you. You always need critique, rock critics, but you can't take away people's taste. People are starting to, very slowly, do their own thing.

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  Rocks, People, Feelings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.

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  People, Treats, Partners

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love touring, I love making records, but eventually all I want...I want to score. I want people to ask me to score their film or use my songs in cinematic ways. I think the ultimate media is a story that you can watch and feel and have a musical moment to. I think it's my favorite. I love watching something when music is creating motion within the motion.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Thinking, Media

  Source: pitchfork.com

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