David Longstreth Quotes

#1. I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

David Longstreth

#2. The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.

David Longstreth

#3. You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.

David Longstreth

#4. Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me.

Eric Balfour

#5. I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really grandiose douche - which, I don't think anyone, himself included, could contest - but at the same time, it's really amazing. I love the scope of his perfectionism.

David Longstreth

#6. Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

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#7. Calmness is the cradle of power.

J.G. Holland

#8. I'm the worst at favourites! I don't have one - I love all my children, I love them all equally.

David Longstreth

#9. Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

David Longstreth

#10. When I was in college I had a wisdom tooth pulled, and I was given a prescription for a bottle of narcotic pills that surely have reached the top of the DEA's hit-list by now. I don't remember the name of the pills, nor do I remember how I ended up in Tijuana. It's probably a long story.

Gary Reilly

#11. There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.

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#12. There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.

Barry McGuigan

#13. You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."

David Longstreth

#14. Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

David Longstreth

#15. As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

Tom Udall

#16. If publications want to publish images and stories from a certain person, they should put that person on assignment, cover his or her expenses, make sure they have access to security briefings and experts, someone to administer first aid, etc.

Lynsey Addario

#17. It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing ... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

David Longstreth

#18. I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.

Alex Ferguson

#19. I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

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#20. In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS, - that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. I feel like the world is super different now than it was in 2009. And to get at something that's somewhat darker, harsher, rougher, and a bit more challenging feels right.

David Longstreth

#22. When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.

David Longstreth

#23. I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

David Longstreth