I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That’s why I write them. David Longstreth Read Quote
People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations. David Longstreth Read Quote
To be in the woods is a special thing. And also just the concept of wilderness as a necessary opposite in a kind of global dialectic. I want there to be wilderness where there are no humans in a world like this. So nature is super important. David Longstreth Read Quote
I remember when I first saw ‘Guided by Voices’; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility. David Longstreth Read Quote
For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It’s like an Andy Warhol dream or something. He’s able to marshal all of these different artforms and media into his story, in this very layered, idiosyncratic way. David Longstreth Read Quote
You can have outlandish ideas, but if you don’t work at them, they just remain outlandish ideas. Anyone can have an idea. Work is transformative. David Longstreth Read Quote
What appeals to me about ‘Blind Willie’ is just how sparse that music is. Just this idea – the grain of it, the rawness of it and the simplicity of it. The directness of the language. David Longstreth Read Quote
