Top 23 Mark Kozelek Quotes
#1. I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.
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#3. "The Moderately Talented ... " is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.
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#4. I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.
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#5. I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.
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#6. Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.
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#7. I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.
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#8. I burned liked oil, you grew like a flower, rising toward your magical hour. I was not yours and you were not mine, our true love finds us when it is time
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#9. Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.
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#10. There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.
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#11. When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.
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#12. I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.
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#13. I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.
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#14. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.
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#15. You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.
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#16. I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.
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#17. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.
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#18. Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass.
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#19. When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.
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#20. I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.
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#21. Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.
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#22. I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.
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#23. I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.
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