Quotes by Phil Elvrum

Phil Elvrum

A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it’s a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it’s a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

Beautiful

Feel Good

Song

All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so crass. They didn’t get it. Those books don’t understand. Nobody understands. The universe, nobody understands my agony, or my questioning, and it’s this shift in what in the world around us could possibly be meaningful or helpful.

Book

Meaningful

World

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

Encounters

Singing

Song

Death is natural, and it happens early for some people. I acknowledge that, and in the next sentence, reject it, because it just sucks. It hurts. I can at the same time acknowledge it as true, and then have my protest against it.

Hurt

Natural

People

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

And Love

Destruction

Reason

I am still not taking my “career” in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

Assumption

Careers

Thinking

I didn’t want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and a lot of records I was buying were like that, and it started to feel like it was too much music to digest at once.

Albums

Records

Two

I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was… crazy.

Crazy

Eight

Fire

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

Choir

Ideas

Preaching

I probably wouldn’t kill a spider now, I’d probably try to scoop it up in a cup and put it outside, but not for any reason other than I don’t need to take other lives recklessly. But other than that, I don’t believe in … anything. Anything, anything.

Believe

Reason

Trying

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Albums

And Love

Annoying

Assumption

Attention

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Bullshit

Care

Careers

Choir

Color

Crazy

Destruction

Different

Dumb

Eight

Encounters

Feel Good

Feelings

Fire

Fun

Goal

Grief

Hate

House

Hurt

Ideas

Interesting

Kind

Long

Mean

Meaningful

Mind

Moving

Musical

Natural

Nice

Nuts

People

Play

Political

Powerful

Preaching

Profound

Real

Reason

Records

Singing

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Quotes by Phil Elvrum

Phil Elvrum

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

Death is natural, and it happens early for some people. I acknowledge that, and in the next sentence, reject it, because it just sucks. It hurts. I can at the same time acknowledge it as true, and then have my protest against it.

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

I am still not taking my “career” in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

I didn’t want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and a lot of records I was buying were like that, and it started to feel like it was too much music to digest at once.

I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was… crazy.

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

I probably wouldn’t kill a spider now, I’d probably try to scoop it up in a cup and put it outside, but not for any reason other than I don’t need to take other lives recklessly. But other than that, I don’t believe in … anything. Anything, anything.

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