Best Animal Collective Quotes

#1. The law against sodomy is trying to stop homosexual men from enjoying themselves. That's what the law is all about. But this is stupid. What do you do according to the law? You find two men enjoying themselves sexually. You arrest them and throw them in ... prison? That outta do it.

Kevin Pollak

#2. Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#3. I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.

Bradford Cox

#4. Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.

Richard Jeni

#5. I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it's anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it's all about not trying to know everything better than everybody else but making the right choices.

Niels Arden Oplev

#6. Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Khalil Gibran

#7. I make a big salad bowl just for myself, double or triple the size of a normal salad.

Joel Fuhrman

#8. I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent hearing loss from that show!

Grimes

#9. Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

Lorde

#10. Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Andre Malraux

#11. Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

Patrick Stump

#12. In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

Ben Horowitz

#13. We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.

Shirley Maclaine

#14. What's your nickname?"
"BC."
She frowns, trying to figure it out. "Because your middle name is Charles?"
I shake my head and tell her with the straightest face, "Big Cock.

Emma Chase

#15. The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.

Jeremy Rifkin

#16. Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

Richard Simmons

#17. I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

Andrew Dost

#18. I want to try to do something myself, knowing that when I have nothing left, someone will take me the rest of the way

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#19. As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

Michael Chertoff

#21. At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

Matt Ridley