John Grant Quotes
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When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
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Icelanders love to speak English. Their English is a joy to hear because of how colloquial and idiomatic it is, but they appreciate your efforts with Icelandic.
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When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.
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I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.
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I can't allow myself to censor myself.
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I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.
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It really was an amazing thing when Midlake brought me down to Texas and created an atmosphere in which I felt really safe and was able to do whatever I wanted artistically.
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I could probably use some tips from a vocal trainer or something about breathing, but we all know it's not about technical prowess.
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If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.
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I don't want to leave the house, and I don't want to settle down.
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I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.
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'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.
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I think the thing that I find the most difficult to talk about is religion.
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I think The Czars had an identity crisis, as we were five guys pulling in different musical directions.
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You can only be you, and there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't have you be any other way.
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I don't really listen to my old music.
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I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.
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I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.
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I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.
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There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.
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I had never considered myself a political guy, but there are certain things I can't shut up about. When I hear people say things like, 'If 'we' allow gays to marry, then people will want to marry animals and children,' I can't just stand there.
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I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.
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I love patchwork quilts. But not in music.