Jeff Mangum Quotes

#1. And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea, but for now we are young, let us lay in the sun, and count every beautiful thing we can see ... Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all.

Jeff Mangum

#2. I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

Jeff Mangum

#3. The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through

Jeff Mangum

#4. There is a whole aspect of freedom to recording at home that you don't get in a studio. The possibilities are infinite, and there is no reason not to explore them.

Jeff Mangum

#5. I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

Jeff Mangum

#6. God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life

Jeff Mangum

#7. I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me.

Jeff Mangum

#8. Two things that lived separately and yet together: a brook and the sky, the wind and the water that coursed through both their veins. You needed both to sail. You needed both in tandem to achieve perfection.

Katy Regnery

#9. It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.

Patricia Churchland

#10. I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

Jeff Mangum

#11. I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

Jeff Mangum

#12. I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

Jeff Mangum

#13. We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.

Scott Adams

#14. My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

Jeff Mangum

#15. I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.

Jeff Mangum

#16. I live in Brooklyn.

Ana Gasteyer

#17. Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

Jeff Mangum

#18. I want to tell him I love him; I try to say the words I feel in my gut and my heart and every inch of me. But nothing comes out.

Nikki Rae

#19. I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me.

Jeff Mangum

#20. I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

Jeff Mangum

#21. Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

Jeff Mangum