Tare Quotes

#1. A war on cops? Then the question becomes who are they warring with? Because if you look at the prison system you can tell who the Prisoners of War are. The Black Man. Words are powerful and we must stop these divisive words that tare our country further apart instead of bringing us together.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#2. I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.

Avey Tare

#3. Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

Avey Tare

#4. I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like Pullhair Rubeye, or something a little bit more organic than that.

Avey Tare

#5. Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations for gratitude we are truly people who have spiritual self-confidence and compassion; and isn't that a great way to live?

Robert J. Wicks

#6. Boys dream of strippers, men dream of their women waiting for them at home.

Kathleen Brooks

#7. There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out.

Avey Tare

#8. The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about this song? Where did the melody come from? I want it to be heartfelt.

Avey Tare

#9. I think that the reason why 'Goats' is called 'Goats' is because you can't give direction to goats. They do what they want. That's the point of this film.

Graham Phillips

#10. I think it's cool to give people encouragement.

Avey Tare

#11. I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

Avey Tare

#12. Never Forget Who You Are Beacause Its Like Forgetingg Water Is Wet,The Sun Is Bright,Snow Is Cold.Its Rudunent.

Andrew Fukuda

#13. We see now that the abyss of history is deep enough to hold us all.

Paul Valery

#14. Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

Avey Tare

#15. The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.

Lex Martin

#16. I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

Avey Tare

#17. Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

Avey Tare

#18. We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.

Avey Tare

#19. An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

Avey Tare

#20. I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

Avey Tare

#21. I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

Theresa May

#22. I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

Avey Tare

#23. Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

Avey Tare

#24. It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

Avey Tare