Colin Meloy Songs Quotes & Sayings

If we only depend on what people say verbally, we're not even close to understand half of what is really going on. Go deeper! — Assegid Habtewold

My brother was kidnapped by birds. My friend was captured by coyotes. And I nearly forgot: My bike is broken. Sounds like a country song. If country songs were really, really weird. — Colin Meloy

The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal. — William Levada

A one sided friendship brings exhaustion and there's no one deserves to be sucked dry. — Euginia Herlihy

I have slipped chile under your skin
secretly wrapped in each enchilada
hot and soothing
carefully cut into bitefuls for you as a
toddler
increasing in power and intensity as
you grew
until it could burn
forever — Carmen Tafolla

Look at that. She think I got siphlus and TB and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo-wee. — John Kennedy Toole

Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it. — Sondra Radvanovsky

When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people — Colin Meloy

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence. — Mahatma Gandhi

It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs. — Colin Meloy