Banhart Quotes

#1. Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Desiderius Erasmus

#2. I wonder if God is really as hot as Alanis Morissette.

Steven A. Moore

#3. There are plenty of things in vaults that didn't sell in its time. So much stuff. But slowly these companies start to get a hint that these things have some value.

Devendra Banhart

#4. I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

Devendra Banhart

#5. There will never be an end
To this droning of the surf.

Wallace Stevens

#6. A black woman's body was never hers alone.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#7. Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

Devendra Banhart

#8. I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

Devendra Banhart

#9. Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

Devendra Banhart

#10. And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now.

Peter Krause

#11. I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

Devendra Banhart

#12. I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

Devendra Banhart

#13. You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.

Devendra Banhart

#14. I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.

Devendra Banhart

#15. I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

Devendra Banhart

#16. And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

Devendra Banhart

#17. It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

Devendra Banhart

#18. You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

Devendra Banhart

#19. I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

Devendra Banhart

#20. Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

Devendra Banhart

#21. As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."

Devendra Banhart

#22. At the end of the day, I can't curl up with people's opinions.

Ronda Rousey

#23. I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

Devendra Banhart

#24. People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

Devendra Banhart

#25. Now if I lived in my land, which I do, if I lived in Iceland, if I lived in Greensland I'd still have Chinese children, but out of my ears my little grey baby hears.

Devendra Banhart

#26. Now everybody knows about this thing that's my secret. It was my thing, the music I turned to when I was alone and needed it. It's what helps me get through these times. It's just between me and music, and now it's been shared with the world.

Devendra Banhart

#27. Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

Devendra Banhart

#28. There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.

Devendra Banhart

#29. Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

Devendra Banhart

#30. I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have.

Devendra Banhart

#31. Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

Devendra Banhart

#32. So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a better person?

Elizabeth Harrower