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  • Singer-Songwriter
  • born 1978
  • 110 quotes

Ariel Pink, Singer-Songwriter (born 1978), is quoted 110 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Thinking, Artist, Song and Stills.

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I'm a product of my environment.

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

My music has always been my solo project.

That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.

If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

I love having the impulsivity to change course. I think it's key to keeping things fresh.

R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.

I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.

I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.

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