QUOTES by Devendra Banhart
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I love Meredith Monk, and with Instagram, I get a chance to see if she has a cat, and what's she reading.
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The first paid show was in Los Angeles at an art opening and I was paid maybe, I don't know, twenty five bucks?
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It's embarrassing to quote Gandhi or something, but being the change you want to see in the world is pretty powerful.
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The real hippie is trying to create something inclusive, something holistic, something loving and healthy which isn't in perpetual conflict with authority and actually knows that the only way to disarm the entire game is to step aside and not take any sides.
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I remember when I was a kid I thought I could either be an athletic water drinker, like an Olympic-level water drinker, or I could invent Windex. Which I thought was really smart, because it already existed.
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I like clothes. I really do. I like going through colors, in a way. I go, 'Greens, man. Greens. Oh, yellow. This yellow feels good.' So it shapes your psyche in a way. But I don't think about it too much, even though I'm interested in it.
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I've been doing visual stuff for as long as I've been making records; in fact, for longer.
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One not-to-be-mentioned major said they would sign me if I worked with a team of songwriters to help me finish songs, ha! Of course, in hindsight, I should've done it just to see what that would have been like.
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I come from a school of artists, the Mission School in San Francisco, and there are a lot of artists I look up to.
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I can't imagine anyone approaching art without the joy of experimentation. The joy of it is inherent... and that is how you flow with the reality of change.
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With music there's so many limbs and facets. Video and touring and merchandise and all those little things require attention. They're artist things but I tend to joke around too much with those things.
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I don't ever think of myself as a dark person or a ruined person in any way. I just feel happy to be alive, and to be able to love.
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I was born with a beard. We're quite hairy down in Latin America. We don't have to use sponges when we wash dishes. We just use our baby beards.
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People love to take sides, but it's not effective. It's not really an effective way of communicating something, because you're either already part of the side or you're going to feel attacked and get defensive.
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I've always said that musicians are the comics of my generations and comedians are the politicians of my generation.
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Personally speaking, Canada is becoming more and more beguiling and mysterious and I feel as though I really need to explore it.
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Canada has really grown and grown as this unexplored and very mysterious and exotic place to me.
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I believe we are all dual beings. Some cultures actually believe we have two souls.
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Caracas was a crazy place in the early Nineties. For instance, when I was 11 years old, I pierced my ear. No big deal, right? But everyone was so scandalised that they shut down the school.
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Venezuela is incredible, but Caracas? Oh God, I hate it. The sidewalks get smaller every time I go back.
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John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot of people even know that he does visual art.
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I was just a huge fan of Blur, Suede, Elastica and Pulp, of course, even Menswear and Ocean Colour Scene.
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When I came home my parents were listening to Pakistani Qawwali music, like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, they're listening to music from Mali, like Ali Farka Toure, they're listening to Brazilian songwriters, like Gilberto Gil, to opera, to Neil Young even, things you don't hear as a kid in Caracas. I love all the music they turned me onto.
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Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, the ubiquitous music is salsa, cumbia, merengue, a little bit of samba.
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Let's take fashion seriously, but not ourselves so seriously. Or reverse that, maybe don't take fashion so seriously, but take yourself seriously. Actually, don't take yourself seriously, that's for sure. So, yeah, take fashion seriously, just not yourself.
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At some point in your life, if you live in Venezuela, you come across or own a cuatro. Either at school, either at camp, either at a friend's house, at a birthday or Christmas or bar mitzvah, you end up with a cuatro. It's like a must.
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A soul singer is always singing to their crowd. They're always singing about their woes to you. And I really appreciate that when a singer is making you feel... when they're directing it at me. When they're including me.
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For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.
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I look at making records like you make a dish. A culinary experience. The way you throw in a tambourine, it's like spices or herbs. The main part of the song is the stock.
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Dad had four world records, and they happened to be Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Farka Toure. I tried singing like these people, and it didn't work.
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I live in a total bubble where I assume everyone is super-liberal and democratic.
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Whether I'm on a major or an indie, I don't think this is important, but at the same time I do.
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