Top 59 St. Vincent Quotes
#1. Outpouring of affection for God, of resting in his presence, of good feelings towards everyone and sentiments and prayers like theseare suspect if they do not express themselves in practical love which has real effects.
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#2. Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.
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#3. Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.
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#4. I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.
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#5. I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
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#6. I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'
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#7. However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.
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#8. Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.
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#9. Go to the poor there you will find God.
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#10. In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.
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#11. Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul.
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#12. I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.
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#13. Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.
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#14. I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.
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#15. Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?
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#16. I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.
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#17. To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.
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#18. I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.
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#19. Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they sayI'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear
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#20. While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.
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#21. Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.
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#22. I read the signs,I got all my stars aligned,My amulets, my charms,I set all my false alarms,So I'll be someoneWho won't be forgotten.
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#23. The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time.
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#24. It is absolutely necessary, both for our advancement and the salvation of others, to follow always and in all things the beautiful light of faith
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#25. A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.
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#26. The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.
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#27. I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.
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#28. I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.
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#29. Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.
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#30. I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.
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#31. Life can be challenging and sad ... but music is the easy part.
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#32. I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.
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#33. I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.
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#34. I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.
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#36. No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.
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#37. I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
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#38. In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.
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#39. All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.
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#40. I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.
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#41. Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.
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#42. I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.
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#43. My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.
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#44. I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.
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#45. Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.
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#46. The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.
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#47. I love Robert Fripp. You know what I really appreciate about Robert Fripp? He always dresses appropriately for the occasion. When he's on stage, he's a Dapper Dan.
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#48. It's not enough to do good. It must be done well.
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#49. It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.
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#50. Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.
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#51. I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.
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#52. One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.
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#53. I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.
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#54. I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.
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#55. I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
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#56. The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.
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#57. Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.
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#58. Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other
so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community
binds it indissolubly to God.
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#59. And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
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