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  • At a certain age, children are total Id - they're anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where the ego and the superego start, and where guilt and socialization and morality takes place, the true root of it.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I don't want to sound like everybody else.

    Sound   Want  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • It wouldn't interest me to try to sound like Cop or something. It would be silly and soul-crushing.

    Crush   Silly   Soul  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

    Way   Approval   Asks  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Maybe in the future I'll put out someone's one-off project, but generally I don't have time.

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  • I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but if there was a howler in there, I definitely pointed it out. Just trying to bring it up to a higher level. Of course, after a couple records, people get fed up with that. That's fine.

    Song   Couple   Writing  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.

  • The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

    Hammers   Alive   Way  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

    Beautiful   Swans   Ugly  
  • When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.

    Glasses   Water   Mouths  
  • I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

    Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.
  • I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.

    Art   School   Rocks  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Nina Simone was an entertainer. Bob Dylan was an entertainer. Anyone that can occupy a piece of music and make the air catch on fire at that moment is a true entertainer. That's how I view it. That's what I was meant to do. I love doing it. That's why I'm on earth.

    Fire   Air   Views  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.

    Guitar   Voice   Band  
    Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.
  • I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.

    Song   Real   Commitment  
    Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.
  • Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a life of their own and I didn't worry about accuracy or biographical truth, so it's not a problem.

    Song   People   Worry  
    Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.
  • When I walk around New York now, there are so many ghosts. I find it very uncomfortable. There were many hard years, and I never really achieved any kind of comfortable financial success, so I just associate it with struggle. When I had a chance to get out, I was elated.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

    People   Tough   Ifs  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.

    School   Tools   Way  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • It's good that people come to the shows because there's nothing fashionable about Swans. Never has been, really. We've never been part of a scene. So the people that come are really there for the music. Fortunately, there's a lot of young people and a burgeoning female contingent, which is good as well.

    People   Female   Scene  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

    Stupid   Healthy   Ribs  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

    Festivals   Born   Feels  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

    Goal   Want   Made  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.

    Body   Twigs   Stage  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

    Records   Answers   Want  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. But I can't find myself in a situation where our band Swans is doing typical chord progressions - it just seems cliché to me. Even changing chords sounds like a cliché sometimes, though it happens occasionally in our music. But you find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

    Source: pitchfork.com
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