Avey Tare Quotes & Sayings

I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time. — Avey Tare

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet. — Avey Tare

I think it's cool to give people encouragement. — Avey Tare

We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me. — Avey Tare

I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like Pullhair Rubeye, or something a little bit more organic than that. — Avey Tare

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place. — Avey Tare

I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us. — Avey Tare

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension. — Avey Tare

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood. — Avey Tare

An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song. — Avey Tare

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people. — Avey Tare

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it. — Avey Tare

There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out. — Avey Tare

The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about this song? Where did the melody come from? I want it to be heartfelt. — Avey Tare

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling." — Avey Tare

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going. — Avey Tare