Kozelek Mark Quotes & Sayings

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet. — Mark Kozelek

I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy. — Mark Kozelek

Does that mean that religious texts are worthless as guides to ethics? Of course not. They are magnificent sources of insight into human nature, and into the possibilities of ethical codes. Just as we should not be surprised to discover that ancient folk medicine has a great deal to teach modern hightech medicine, we should not be surprised if we find that these great religious texts hold versions of the very best ethical systems any human culture will ever devise. But, like folk medicine, we should test it all carefully, and take nothing whatever on faith. — Daniel C. Dennett

"The Moderately Talented ... " is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you. — Mark Kozelek

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass. — Mark Kozelek

I burned liked oil, you grew like a flower, rising toward your magical hour. I was not yours and you were not mine, our true love finds us when it is time — Mark Kozelek

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad. — Maria Sharapova

Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song. — Mark Kozelek

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound. — Mark Kozelek

The world outside your skin is just as much you as the world inside: they move together inseparably, and at first you feel a little out of control because the world outside is so much vaster than the world inside. Yet you soon discover that you are able to go ahead with ordinary activities - to work and make decisions as ever, though somehow this is less of a drag. Your body is no longer a corpse which the ego has to animate and lug around. There is a feeling of the ground holding you up, and of hills lifting you when you climb them. Air breathes itself in and out of your lungs, and instead, of looking and listening, light and sound come to you on their own. Eyes see and ears hear as wind blows and water flows. All space becomes your mind. Time carries you along like a river, but never flows out of the present: the more it goes, the more it stays, and you no longer have to fight or kill it. — Alan W. Watts

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records. — Mark Kozelek

The two men who led the expedition across the North American continent on Earth, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, were set a mission to explore an expanse of unknown wilderness, to chart the lands they traveled, to seek out what new life there might be, to befriend the peoples they might encounter, to keep a record of their journey, and to bring that knowledge home." He paused, thrilled that this moment had come at last. "They called themselves the Corps of Discovery. Let us therefore, on this stardate, rededicate ourselves to that ideal. — David R. George III

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved. — Wilhelm, Ostwald

Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet. — Mark Kozelek

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do. — Mark Kozelek

There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god. — Mark Kozelek

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions. — Mark Kozelek

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span. — Mark Kozelek

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references. — Mark Kozelek

Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is every deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, these open the prison by supreme power, by some magic force. Where sympathy is renewed, life is restored. — Vincent Van Gogh

I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like. — Heather O'Rourke

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying. — Mark Kozelek

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. — Mark Kozelek

Beauty lies in simplicity. — Abhijit Naskar

You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid. — Mark Kozelek

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album. — Mark Kozelek

We're all human and life is complicated. — Mark Kozelek

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort. — Mark Kozelek

Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no exception to this rule ... It is not the legitimate business of government in America to promote 'diversity.' — Ward Connerly

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time. — Mark Kozelek

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older. — Mark Kozelek

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. — Mark Kozelek