Phil Elvrum Quotes - Page 2

• I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

  Phil Elvrum

  Thinking, Trying, Kind

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

  Phil Elvrum

  People, Attention, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel good later, and vice versa. To write about those things brings this satisfying feeling as a creative person. There's a lot of music out there that's like, "I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black," and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content.

  Phil Elvrum

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Music that you want to throw your body into it - that's a feeling that I'm not quite satisfied with having made yet.

  Phil Elvrum

  Teenager, Feelings, Attention

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

  Phil Elvrum

  Profound, Interesting, Dumb

  Source: www.mtv.com

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