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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have my more concept-y albums, and then I have the ones that are more about just collections of songs. For me, the first Dirty Projectors record that I put out was like that: 'The Glad Fact.'
- Good
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Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working as a producer, an arranger, and, in some cases, as a writer for some other people gave me a super different perspective.
- People
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It's helpful to just hear things through friends' ears, people who know you well. I guess when I started Dirty Projectors, when I was, like, 20, I always imagined it would be kind of like an amphibious vehicle: something that could go with me wherever I need to go. That kind of constant change has been in the DNA from the beginning.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean something to me since I was a little kid or a teenager, is that they're songs that tell stories and songs that come from a place of experience.
- Generosity
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When we're talking about friendships, generosity and fairness and equanimity and sharing and all those things are super-important to me.
- Music
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What appeals to me about 'Blind Willie' is just how sparse that music is. Just this idea - the grain of it, the rawness of it and the simplicity of it. The directness of the language.
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I loved 'Nothing Was the Same' so much. For me, that was the first Drake record that I got into.
- Genius
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Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
- Memories
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I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me.
- Mysterious
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Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious.
- Dangerous Thing
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Hindsight is the most dangerous thing imaginable for me. I imagine that's the case for most filmmakers. And I would love to be a filmmaker who was an exception to that rule, but I'm certainly not.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.
- Important
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I cannot get to the top on my own. Everyone is important to me. Everyone has played a part in my success, and I try to show that.
- Happy
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When Chelsea came to me and said they wanted me to come back, I was happy because I had a special moment here - one of the best in my career. I won the Champions League, the Europa League.
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