Bon Iver Quotes

#1. As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

Annie Leibovitz

#2. A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Ibrahim Babangida

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Dante Alighieri

#4. I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it's not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It's a machine, and it's money, and you just get put on this indie rock cart, and it's embarrassing.

Justin Vernon

#5. I told you to be patient, I told you to be fine, I told you to be balanced and I told you to be kind. Now all your love is wasted? Then who the hell was I?

Bon Iver

#6. I'm a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion

Madonna Ciccone

#7. The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. After a while, you get used to it. It becomes pretense no longer.

Carl Sagan

#8. I've heard that Bon Iver liked my cover of 'Skinny Love.'

Birdy

#9. Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Fran Lebowitz

#10. Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.

Justin Vernon

#11. Bon Iver: Way too emotionally high stakes for casual listening in the sense that it makes every single part of your life feel like the part of a TV show where you are in a hospital saying goodbye for the very last time

Jesse Andrews

#12. What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.

Seneca.

#13. I love wearing the exact same thing all the time because I think it makes you like a cartoon character. They always wear the same outfit and everybody always remembers them for it, so I feel like I should do the same thing.

Kesha

#14. I don't want the big flashing lights and red carpet, like, 'Here comes another Bon Iver album!' I just want it to be my bedroom-y thing. But that'll take a while to figure out.

Justin Vernon

#15. I'm in love with your honour.
I'm in love with your cheeks.

Bon Iver

#16. It's interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It's as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

Donald Miller

#17. Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.

John Armstrong

#18. I've never spoken to Bon Iver, but I would love to. I'm a huge fan!

Birdy

#19. That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.

Todd Rundgren

#20. Let's just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'

Conan O'Brien

#21. Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Charles Dickens

#22. Queen can't work like any normal group. They utilise each others' talents to the fullest. A lot of the band's ideas are revolutionary, a lot of the style is revolutionary.

Roy Thomas Baker

#23. There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

Justin Vernon

#24. I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature.

Justin Vernon

#25. I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Justin Vernon

#26. My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.

Shamir

#27. Every place I go, I take another place with me.

Bon Iver

#28. Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band.

Justin Vernon