Avett Quotes

#1. I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

John Oates

#2. It won't take long for me To tell you who I am. Well you hear this voice right now Well that's pretty much all I am. - THE AVETT BROTHERS, GIMMEAKISS

Colleen Hoover

#3. So if you could find it in your heart To give a man a second start I promise things won't end the same. - THE AVETT BROTHERS

Colleen Hoover

#4. I'm as nowhere as I can be, Could you add some somewhere to me? - THE AVETT BROTHERS, SALINA

Colleen Hoover

#5. And I know you need me in the next room over But I am stuck in here all paralyzed. - THE AVETT BROTHERS, "TEN THOUSAND WORDS

Colleen Hoover

#6. When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me.

Colleen Hoover

#7. Who cares about tomorrow?
What more is tomorrow,
than another day?
(-The Avett Brothers, "Swept Away")

Colleen Hoover

#8. Don't say it's over
'Cause that's the worst news I could hear I swear that I will
Do my best to be here just the way you like it
Even though it's hard to hide
Push my feelings all aside
I will rearrange my plans and change for you. (-The Avett Brothers)

Colleen Hoover

#9. You can't be like me But be happy that you can't I see pain but I don't feel it I am like the old Tin Man. - THE AVETT BROTHERS, TIN MAN

Colleen Hoover

#10. But I can tell by watching you That there's no chance of pushing through The odds are so against us You know most young love, it ends like this. - THE AVETT BROTHERS, I WOULD BE SAD

Colleen Hoover

#11. I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

Judd Apatow

#12. That's it? That's all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations?" Marshall smirked. "Woe is me.

Sophie Avett

#13. Whether it's about children or not, we have to move forward.

Scott Avett

#14. We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.

Scott Avett

#15. When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

Scott Avett

#16. One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

Scott Avett

#17. A great show means we have to connect; we have to prove to [the audience] that we do something great or blow their socks off, but it has to be with them if it's going to be sustained for any length of time.

Scott Avett

#18. Sometimes I'm extremely afraid of the unknown, but I'm so grateful to be on that journey.

Scott Avett

#19. In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

Scott Avett

#20. You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of the songs Kurt Cobain wrote.

Seth Avett

#21. I think everyone on the planet is a fan of a painting because everyone is a fan of visual stimulation, but I've had freedom in the world [of painting] because I've kept it to myself.

Scott Avett

#22. I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

Scott Avett

#23. Like recognized like. And while we had both been lost and floundering on our own, when we were together it felt like we were exactly where we were supposed to be.

Jay Crownover

#24. I very much enjoyed Leo Tolstoy's What is Art? I can't quote it, it's been a while, but at the end of the day, the idea is that "art that does good in the world is art, and what doesn't is not. It's propaganda or something else. It's bad."

Scott Avett

#25. Decide what to be and go be it.

Avett Brothers

#26. In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

Scott Avett

#27. Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes you laugh and feel light as a feather. With someone like him, you're getting a real picture of a person, a real expression.

Scott Avett

#28. If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about.

Scott Avett

#29. Well you hear this voice right now
Well that's pretty much all I am

Colleen Hoover

#30. You really get tired in one area of your life, and then you start questioning your whole existence.

Seth Avett

#31. Anytime you start getting a real tangible relationship with something that's been blown up to a legendary status, you just realize that every part of it is just people getting ahead.

Seth Avett

#32. It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead of this rambling march of verses, Rick understands that music needs hooks. You need that repeated chorus, that everyone can sing along to.

Scott Avett

#33. In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

Scott Avett

#34. To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

Scott Avett