Yannis Philippakis Quotes

• I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Song, Honesty, Emotional

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Teenager, Writing, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Thinking, Want, Baboons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Religious, Singing, Zealous

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Rose, Joy, Looks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so heavily that there's no humanity left in it.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Perfect, Humanity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you can express something in the simplest way possible, I think there's something noble in that. It's easy to flesh stuff out and get all purple with it, being cryptic and wearing masks... I think it's a bit adolescent. I wanted to write in a way that was vulnerable. I wanted to have courage in stripping back the opaque stuff so it was just raw. I like lyrics that are a lifeline, that have a purpose to them and are not just meandering around in a masturbatory way. They cut the page.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Teenager, People, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Writing, Exciting, Paragraph

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

  Yannis Philippakis

  School, Inspired, Good God

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Writing, Simple, Burroughs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wanted to squirm.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Writing, Listening, Wearing A Mask

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Self, Down And, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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