Sxip Shirey Quotes

• Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

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  Song, Art, Writing

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• The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

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  Kids, Obsessed

  "Sxip Shirey’s Magic Journey: Sonic New York" by Holly Cara Price, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2010.

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• The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

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  Way, Folks, Approach

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• I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

  Sxip Shirey

  Ironic, Stuff, Rockers

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• I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.

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  Thinking, Ice Cream, Order

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• I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

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  Doors, Play, Hip Hop

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• In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

  Sxip Shirey

  Way, Urban, Tradition

  "Sxip Shirey’s Magic Journey: Sonic New York" by Holly Cara Price, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2010.

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