Kurt Vile Quotes
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My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day.
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I've gotten a lot more paranoid in my older age.
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There's so many FM hits that I love. Bob Seger, there's two of his songs that I love. I would probably love more, but I don't sit around listening to Bob Seger records. It's the same thing with Tom Petty; he writes amazing hits, but it's not often that I sit around at home listening to a whole Tom Petty album.
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I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.
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People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it. What am I gonna do?
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I'm just used to the L.A. music life.
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Every time I play with somebody, your perspective gets a little extended. It always rounds you out a little more in some way.
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I walk around a lot. People come up to me and say 'Hi,' but not that often. I mean, I get it plenty often, but sometimes I wish they'd come up to me more! I mean, I'm just a regular guy.
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My dad's really funny. The male sense of humor - like my grandfather's and such - is pretty bizarre. Basically my dad's side of the family is where the bizarreness comes from. It's a little goofy and a little out there.
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I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.
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A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.
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Some people are so sad that, at times, that's what gets on my nerves - if they just hammer the doom, with no comic relief whatsoever.
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I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.
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I like the idea of having money.
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Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.
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Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives.
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There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch.
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When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not.
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Nobody wants a complainer.
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Even when I played in little league as a kid, I liked making friends, but I didn't want to be there, really.
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I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.
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I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.
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I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything.
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We'll play somewhere like London, playing to 2,000 people easy, and every time you play with more people, you think, 'You're a rock star,' and it makes you laugh. I guess I am, but I'm also, you know, not.