Quotes by Sufjan Stevens

About Sufjan Stevens:

Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He first came to wider recognition with the 2000 album, A Sun Came, which was released on the Asthmatic Kitty label he co-founded with his stepfather. He is perhaps best known for his 2005 album, Illinois, which hit number one on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, and for the single "Chicago".
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The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't mean...

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You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.

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My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

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My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

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The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.

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I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

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I think musicians should stay off television generally.

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I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.

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It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

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Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

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I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young.

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I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

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I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.

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One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

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I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

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I'm pretty involved in everything I do, which isn't always efficient and doesn't necessarily make for the more successful product. But I do feel that, in that sense, everything I do has a comprehensiveness to it.

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I'm a very self-conscious person; I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances; it's just an ongoing psychologica...

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I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like things to get noisier and weirder and more distressed and more aggressive, but I don't know if that's something that would be suitable for public ...

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I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's kind of an open-ended concept. It doesn't have to be taken so literally.

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It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually.

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Author Bio

  • NameSufjan Stevens
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalis
  • BornJuly 1, 1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Composer; Oboist; Banjoist