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Michael Stipe Quotes
And I dont expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didnt - in the 1960s. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they dont really care whats playing, they just know that they kinda like it or its easy to drive to or its easy to sing along to or whatever. - Michael Stipe Quotes
But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that were very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do. - Michael Stipe Quotes
But were very much an American band and thats that. I think thats part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt. - Michael Stipe Quotes
I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. - Michael Stipe Quotes
I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed. - Michael Stipe Quotes
I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Im just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that Ive written about. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Im not homosexual, Im not hetrosexual, Im just sexual. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Im tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Ive always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food. - Michael Stipe Quotes
If Im tired of me, Im sure the public is as well. - Michael Stipe Quotes
If you disagree with me, fine! Because thats the great thing about America, we can disagree! - Michael Stipe Quotes
My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am. - Michael Stipe Quotes
My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. - Michael Stipe Quotes
On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin. - Michael Stipe Quotes
So, we just kind of created our own thing and thats part of the beauty of Athens: is that its so off the map and theres no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. - Michael Stipe Quotes
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now were kind of an international phenomenon. - Michael Stipe Quotes
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, its wallpaper to them, its elevator music, its just the thing thats playing in the background that helps them through their day. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. Its equally humbling and uplifting. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Super casual music listeners. Thats most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, thats why Top 40 radio exists. Its not there for people who seek out music and who love music. - Michael Stipe Quotes
There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that. - Michael Stipe Quotes
There was a point in the 80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - theyd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir. - Michael Stipe Quotes
There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell. - Michael Stipe Quotes
They always want me to play myself and thats a big snooze. - Michael Stipe Quotes
We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month. - Michael Stipe Quotes
We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Were absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. Thats part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that were such a huge band outside of the U.S., where were not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago. - Michael Stipe Quotes
Quotes Cloud
1960s About Allow Along Anyone Because Best
Bring Care Come Desire Didnt Dont Drive
Dylan Easy Expect Formula Into Just Know
Laurels Like Listeners Music Ones Part Playing
Radio Really Rest Revolution Sing That They
Thing Things Think Turn Very Were What
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