Quotes by Jeffrey Lewis

Jeffrey Lewis

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

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Mesmerizing

Quality

A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that’s the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing – that’s the reason something like that often has more impact on society.

Impact

Missing

People

About Jimi Hendrix – although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and this makes his music much better than if he was just a technical player and singer.

Player

Uber

Voice

Everybody has a direct view of the person “behind” the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

Art

Song

Views

I do feel pretty lucky that I’m not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I’ve really got something worth presenting because I can’t rely on any kind of virtuosity to dazzle people with.

Lucky

People

Singing

I don’t think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.

Song

Thinking

Writing

I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like – I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience.

Fancy

People

Voice

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

Artist

Creative

Thinking

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

Creative

Interesting

Musical

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Quotes by Jeffrey Lewis

Jeffrey Lewis

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that’s the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing – that’s the reason something like that often has more impact on society.

About Jimi Hendrix – although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and this makes his music much better than if he was just a technical player and singer.

Everybody has a direct view of the person “behind” the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

I do feel pretty lucky that I’m not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I’ve really got something worth presenting because I can’t rely on any kind of virtuosity to dazzle people with.

I don’t think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.

I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like – I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience.

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

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