Dan Deacon Quotes

#1. I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

Dan Deacon

#2. Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.

Bryan Adams

#3. If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

Dan Deacon

#4. I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

Dan Deacon

#5. This hill, though high, I covet to ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend.
For I perceive the way to life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
Better, though difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

John Bunyan

#6. When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

Dan Deacon

#7. If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Jerry Seinfeld

#8. Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.

John Hutton

#9. Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.

Karen Salmansohn

#10. Deacon laughs. 'People like you and me, Dan, trouble sniffs us out. Maybe you can hide out for a while, maybe even a few years, but eventually someone needs to be saved or someone needs to be killed.

Eoin Colfer

#11. I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it ... . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.

Knut Hamsun

#12. I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.

Don Winslow

#13. I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

Dan Deacon

#14. I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.

Dan Deacon

#15. All I'm asking for is what I want.

Rickey Henderson

#16. The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

Dan Deacon

#17. I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was.

Michael Feldman

#18. I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

Dan Deacon

#19. We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#20. It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

Dan Deacon

#21. You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

Dan Deacon

#22. For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

Dan Deacon

#23. When a horse wants to display himself ... he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.

Xenophon

#24. I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.

Marjane Satrapi

#25. Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

Dan Deacon

#26. It's weird how people hate getting older ...

Dan Deacon

#27. What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

Dan Deacon

#28. We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Hermann Hesse