Jason Molina Quotes

#1. What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

John Cage

#2. I love what I know about passion, I love what I know about mercy, I love what I know about patience, I love what I know about soul, and I know you.

Jason Molina

#3. I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.

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#4. I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.

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#5. Being in love means you are completely broken, then put back together. The one piece that was yours is beating in your lover's breast. She says the same thing about hers.

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#6. I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

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#7. At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

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#8. I want my last look to be the moon in your eyes.

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#9. In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

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#10. I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.

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#11. The consistency - either the theme from record to record, or the band, the different musicians - it really varies. So if I get criticism, I don't worry about that, because I'm still being creative.

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#12. I feel a lot of guilt about the freedom that being an artist provides. I ask myself, 'Why am I not the guy emptying the trash, why am I the guy who is watching the guy empty the trash?'

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#13. I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

Jessa Crispin

#14. I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

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#15. I try to do collaborations with as many artists as possible. It's really excellent and fun to actually work with another songwriter.

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#16. Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"
Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

Lewis Carroll

#17. The things that made thier pulse quicken were all the wrong thing..

Laini Taylor

#18. Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

Bobby McFerrin

#19. I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write.

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#20. Your calling is your life assignment

Sunday Adelaja

#21. As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.

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#22. I grew up in a very relaxed environment in one sense, without many rules. My mother had a problem knowing where to draw the line, which caused a chaotic and hectic home life. A lot of people took advantage of my mom.

Nikki Reed

#23. When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

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#24. These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that.

Jason Molina

#25. I glanced at my brother. "How the hell did you jump to that conclusion?!" I asked.
He just grinned and tapped the side of his head. "Brains, dear girl, brains."
I snorted softly."I wasn't aware that was where you kept your brains.

Keri Arthur

#26. I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.

Jason Molina

#27. Enobaria smiles at Johanna. 'Don't look so smug,' says Johanna. 'We'll kill you anyway.

Suzanne Collins

#28. From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music.

Jason Molina

#29. My heart is sick / and I didn't make it out.

Jason Molina