Kurt Vile Quotes
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I get to come home to my family. It's awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life.
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I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself 'Philly's Constant Hitmaker' when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones' first album, 'England's Newest Hit Makers.'
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I proved myself with 'Smoke Ring.' It was me maturing. I made a good pop record.
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I like to laugh at dark things.
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I like New York. I like Philly. I like San Fran. I like when people are stoked. But Chicago's a real music town, and they're really good to us there. There's just something in the air there; people are just really stoked about music. Every time I go there, I have a great time, and the fandom is really heartwarming.
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I benefit from a change of scenery; it's always inspiring.
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I like a well-rounded life. All of this work is kind of useless if you don't have something good to come home to.
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I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.
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I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.
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I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.
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Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources, but it's not too over the top.
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Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you.
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If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.
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I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.
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I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.
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I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.
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Even when I haven't played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It's like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live.
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'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.
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If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.
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I had a really fun time working with the HARRYS guys and their whole crew.
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I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.
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That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.
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I'm always working on music.
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That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'