Sufjan Stevens Quotes
I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical... I want less melody.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.
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I love dressing up.
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
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You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
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Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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My voice is very special. People either love it or they're like, 'What's wrong with this girl? She looks 16 and sounds like a hooker!'
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I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.
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Guys often ask me, 'How can you deal with knowing your wife has sex with other men?'... I typically respond to them, 'How can you cope with not knowing who your wife has been with?
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I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical... I want less melody.
