Sufjan Stevens Quotes

I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

Sufjan Stevens

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• I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • God
  • Know
  • Me

• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Like
  • Trouble

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Earth
  • Research

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Tree
  • Potential

• My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • World
  • Great
  • Me

• Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Spiritual
  • Only
  • Zeal

• I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Voting

• I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • People
  • Long
  • Remember

• When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Fashion
  • Thought
  • Places

• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Great
  • Women
  • Art

• You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Work
  • Distance
  • Step

• I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • People
  • Song
  • Fashion

• You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • People
  • Remember
  • Respect

• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Written
  • Poem

• Britain has trend-setting fashion, ground-breaking scientists, and innovative technology companies. It is also a welcome home for investors.

  

  Princess Beatrice of York
  • Home
  • Technology
  • Fashion

• I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Music
  • Forever
  • Social