I have this Martin electric/acoustic that’s made of black formica. Really cool. David Berman Read Quote
Obviously there was the idea that we could sell more records if we played live, but I guess I didn’t care enough to sell more records to do that. David Berman Read Quote
If they told me I couldn’t leave the radius of six miles from my house, I really wouldn’t care. There’s nowhere I really want to go. David Berman Read Quote
I’ve never been from a certain group. I’ve always reserved a space for myself where I’m unattached to any group, but the part of Judaism that I really take away, that means something to me, is the part about community. David Berman Read Quote
The songs of mine that don’t work, the ones that I wouldn’t consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies. It’s not that they fail because they’re boring, but because they overreach. David Berman Read Quote
In a lot of ways, I wouldn’t be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high and low art mix easily. David Berman Read Quote
The rules changed for art around 1989. We were all loosed upon the canon to clip and paste and borrow and update. Only thing is, unless you were in New York or in a cultural studies program, that new paradigm probably wasn’t going to sink in until the Internet arrived. David Berman Read Quote
In the beginning, because of the Pavement thing, we were able to sell a certain amount of records. We were able to sell not such a great amount of records, but enough to live on. So there was no incentive to do what didn’t come naturally. David Berman Read Quote
