Top 38 Mark Kozelek Quotes
#1. I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.
Mark Kozelek
#2. Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. With their ever-available loving hearts, they bow before God and bend down under all this pain and are lower than all the other creatures on earth. Pride is rare among them.3 Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#6. Not slumber, but sleep just this side of waking, where dreams fuse with reality.
Ellen Hopkins
#7. I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.
Mark Kozelek
#8. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.
Mark Kozelek
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?
Harry Browne
#14. Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.
Russell Baker
#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. I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
Emily Dickinson
#19. Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.
Paula Deen
#21. Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.
Mark Kozelek
#22. I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.
Mark Kozelek
#24. Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.
Susan Orlean
#26. "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
#27. The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.
John C. Wright
#28. I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.
Mark Kozelek
#29. I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.
Mark Kozelek
#30. I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.
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#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
Adam Smith
#34. 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
#35. Nirvana is entire body experience of complete knowingness that our lives are enriched with abundance in the present moment and that it will continue to be going forward.
Matthew Donnelly
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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