Kozelek Quotes

#1. I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

Mark Kozelek

#2. I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

Mark Kozelek

#3. Fame is a four-letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or love, or life, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

Fred Rogers

#4. I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

Mark Kozelek

#5. I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.

Mark Kozelek

#6. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

Mark Kozelek

#7. It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

Emily Yoffe

#8. You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.

Mark Kozelek

#9. It's hard to act in the morning. The muse isn't even awake.

Keanu Reeves

#10. How sad that youth, with all its power,
Was given us in vain, to burn;
That we betrayed it every hour,
And were deceived by it in turn;

Ivan Turgenev

#11. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

Mark Kozelek

#12. Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass.

Mark Kozelek

#13. When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

Mark Kozelek

#14. Leaning forward he placed his lips over hers. She told herself he was breathing life into her, but the truth was he'd always been sucking it out, slowly, one breath at a time. - From ENGRAVED

Amber Garza

#15. Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

Mark Kozelek

#16. I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

Mark Kozelek

#17. I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

Mark Kozelek

#18. To be profitable, practice diligence.
To be successful, practice excellence.
To be influential, practice intelligence.
To be honorable, practice prudence.
To be blissful, practice kindness.
To be joyful, practice goodness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

Mark Kozelek

#20. We are said to be irrational slaves to our whims and appetites, addicted to sex, smoking, and electronic gadgets.

Anonymous

#21. Not that he had any pleasure in Jean-Christophe's anger; on the contrary, it made him unhappy - but he felt his power by making Jean-Christophe suffer. He was not bad; he had the soul of a girl.

Anonymous

#22. There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.

Mark Kozelek

#23. Melancholy can be good for the soul.

Adam Christopher

#24. If there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

Jose Saramago

#25. The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

Ted Sarandos

#26. Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

Mark Kozelek

#27. I burned liked oil, you grew like a flower, rising toward your magical hour. I was not yours and you were not mine, our true love finds us when it is time

Mark Kozelek

#28. I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

Mark Kozelek

#29. Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

Mark Kozelek

#30. I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

Mark Kozelek

#31. I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

Mark Kozelek

#32. "The Moderately Talented ... " is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.

Mark Kozelek

#33. We're all human and life is complicated.

Mark Kozelek

#34. I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

Mark Kozelek