Panda Bear Sayings

#1. Shad ignored my sudden lack of interest. "Stop overanalyzing and be happy. You should try the Shad lifestyle, Miss Winters. It's more panda bear and less porcupine."
"Huh?"
"More black and white and cuddly, and less, well ... alone and pointy.

Kirby Howell

#2. You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.

Cary Fowler

#3. Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#4. It's torture. We're doing four TV spots. Four different bears turn into four different people - four, so we can cover our races. And then fucking Kelly asks if we should make the Asian guy a panda bear. And he was serious. Not only is that racist, panda bears don't hibernate.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have been for lives upon lives. The process of meditation does not add anything to you; it only takes away what is wrong, cuts it away, sheds it off.

Rajneesh

#6. In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.

Steve Scott

#7. I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo system. Most of the music I listen to these days is on the web or on MySpace pages, stuff like that.

Panda Bear

#8. In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.

Panda Bear

#10. I've had the idea since high school, of writing music just for voices, just a choir. I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing it, but I'd definitely be excited about trying to pull that off at some point. It definitely seems like an older-me kind of project.

Panda Bear

#11. If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

Honore De Balzac

#12. Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .

David Barton

#13. I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.

Panda Bear

#14. But why is it so hard to forgive?' Mrs. Conners asked.
'Pride,' Dad said. 'This person has already wronged you in some way, and now you are the one who has to swallow your pride, give something up, in order to forgive him.

Bree Despain

#15. Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week.

Clarence Birdseye

#16. I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

Lisa Ling

#17. We may all be a peculiar lot ... often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work ... but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

Vincent Price

#18. Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.

Panda Bear

#19. Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

Panda Bear

#20. Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

John Maurice Clark

#21. I enjoy trying to figure out a way to deal with machines - they become like little buddies or something. It's almost the same way you might develop a relationship with a dog - maybe that's weird to say - but there becomes an understanding you reach after a while.

Panda Bear

#22. The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

Bob Verdi

#23. It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.

Panda Bear

#24. When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

Panda Bear

#25. I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it's competitive but only with yourself. With the last one doing well, it made it a challenge to feel like I was improving in some way.

Panda Bear

#26. Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar element on one side, and then some sort of really basic rhythm on the other side. That's where I started from in the recording process.

Panda Bear

#27. At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

Panda Bear

#28. Even though there's stuff that I really like that is just a retro sort of style or whatever, I feel like what I'm most excited by is new mixes of things.

Panda Bear

#29. I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

Panda Bear

#30. I've never met God, but I've heard the blues.

David Mutti Clark

#31. When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

Dan Savage

#32. I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

Panda Bear

#33. I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know.

Panda Bear

#34. There is enough in Christ for all my necessities; let me not be slow to avail myself of Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#35. I'm really into the idea of playing sit-down drums again. I don't know if it'll end up that way, but as of right now, that's what I'm interested in doing.

Panda Bear