Owen Pallett Quotes

• I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

  Owen Pallett

  Song, Writing, Events

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• Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.

  Owen Pallett

  Men, Thinking, Gauges

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• What better metaphor for the subliminal state than capitalism? This whole notion that you're trying to do good and make things good for the world, but at the same time the reality is that you have to eat other people to end up on top.

  Owen Pallett

  Reality, People, Trying

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• Regarding gay and music, I don't actually think my music is particularly gay at all, because my music doesn't have sex with men. My music does not have a gender, I don't see it as being gay.

  Owen Pallett

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• I desperately want children. I want like four of them. But I will never have them, I mean at least with the current circumstances, living with my boyfriend.

  Owen Pallett

  Children, Mean, My Boyfriend

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• I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.

  Owen Pallett

  Would Be, Way, Impossible

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• I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I have a bone to pick with.

  Owen Pallett

  Artist, Bones, Weird Things

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• I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.

  Owen Pallett

  People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you don't have to be factually accurate. You can kind of construct some awesome strawman arguments in your fictional world.

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  World, Kind, Argument

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Discipline is not just about work, but about diet and about exercise and on a deeper level, about concentrating and making sure that my brain is staying in good places and the neurons are firing in positive ways as opposed to getting into anxiety, panic-attack states of mind. When I'm crazy. You know?

  Owen Pallett

  Crazy, Exercise, Discipline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had identified discipline as a really important part of my life, in maintaining my sanity. It's kind of interesting when people don't know me and then get to know me and see just how workaholic I am and how unhappy I am when I don't have something to work on, or if I am not provided with the tools to be able to accomplish those things, like touring without my looping rig or without a piano, I'm just kind of like, 'Aahhh, what do I do with my day?' To me, that's just a large part of my sanity.

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  Discipline, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically kind of have to just set everything else aside - it's like suddenly getting a temp job that requires you to work 16-hour days. Also just aesthetically, you have to completely leave all of your ego out of it.

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  Writing, Ego, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I understand that in people's eyes, classical music is kind of a lost and dying art, but in my eyes, it's like, "Oh, the musical language, which has been, in the past, only available to a scarce few at the top of the tower, is now wide open." Now people's ears are becoming more amenable to fake strings - I think this is great!

  Owen Pallett

  Art, Eye, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the cornerstone for my impetus for doing arrangements for people is because I want to be an enabler. That is to say, I don't approach arrangements with the idea that I want to progressive the genre of arranging. I want to be more of an enabler, and if a person is making a record and they have the option of layering some real instruments down on a track and I can be of assistance whether it is brass or winds or stings or percussion then I do so. Sometimes I do take on projects because it is a pretty sweet deal to work with Pet Shop boys, you know?

  Owen Pallett

  Sweet, Real, Boys

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The thing is, when you're kind of creatively self-employed, your brain just kind of chooses the path of least resistance, so if you really exhausted and you've had a long day, then that's typically when you might respond to emails or if you're on a plane and have nothing else to do, then you might listen to music and write these satirical pieces trying to explain the charts with music theory.

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  Writing, Long, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was able to notice in a very early stage, there were discrepancies between the people who are writing the songs and discrepancies about the self that I was writing about. I was feeling that there were all these different people, both writing the record and having the record being written about them, even though ostensibly it was me sitting down and documenting a series of life experiences. Part of that, when I recognized this unconscious thing I was doing, was about these spaces, about these gaps.

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  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Canada is the worst polluter in the world right now. There's absolutely no sign on a federal level that there's going to be any alleviation of the polluting that's going on. Even the Parti Québécois in Québec, which is historically a party that has been leftist and environmental - they are trying to give $450 million subsidies to polluting enterprises in Gaspé. These, to me are my problems.

  Owen Pallett

  Party, Giving, Environmental

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always identified people's taste in music as being kind of hetero and/or homo - there's music people like because they feel like they have aesthetic similarity to it and the music they wish to create, and then there's music that represents the other, that they listen to because it represents an escape from the music that they have to make.

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  People, Wish, Be Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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