Elverum Quotes & Sayings

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say. — Gabrielle Zevin

I only had two real tasks [while in Norway]: gathering dead trees to burn from the surrounding small forest and getting water from a hole in a frozen stream. The rest of the time I wandered around, obsessed over my life dramas, stared into space, read books, wrote letters, made up songs, went crazy and eventually snapped out of my misery and noticed the dawn — Phil Elverum

The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest? — Marty Rubin

The seer crow was outraged. "Mangiz does not forget an insult, hedgepig."
Ambrose smiled cheekily. "Good, then here's a few more for you to remember, you pot-bellied, cross-eyed, feather-bottomed excuse for a duck. — Brian Jacques

Manage your life as you manage your money. — Sharon Law Tucker

I think the last album I bought was a very beautiful album called 'Lost Wisdom' by Mount Eerie featuring Julie Doiron, and I bought it direct from Phil Elverum via his website. It's cool you can do that now with the Internet. — Withered Hand

Coming out of a dream or a book, the real world is such a deceptive and essentially miserable place. — Phil Elverum

I cannot see anything admirable in stupidity, injustice and sheer incompetence in high places, and there is too much of all three in the present administration. — M.M. Kaye

The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal. — Martin Luther