Quotes by Jeff Mangum - Page 1

The music is supposed to be healing.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Healing
Music Is
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How strange it is to be anything at all.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
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Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Meaningful
Music Is
Silly
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God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Rest Of Your Life
Waiting
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I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Band
Football
Play
Everyone Else
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I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Circus
Influenced
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The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Dream
Crazy
World
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My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Brain
Next
Song
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My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Revolve
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I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
College
Down The Road
Easy
Louisiana
Tech
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I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Pang
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I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Home
Records
Situation
Home Me Will
Connects
Ideal
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I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Opportunity
Beautiful
Intelligent
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I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Containing
Decades
Different
Ideas
Sound
Universe
Love World Universe
Recording
Sounds
Span
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There is a whole aspect of freedom to recording at home that you don't get in a studio. The possibilities are infinite, and there is no reason not to explore them.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Aspect
Infinite
No Reason
Explore
Possibilities
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I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Dream
Bed
Every Night
Frank
Moving
Night
Time And Space
Anne
Save
Somehow
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And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Life
Beautiful
Sea
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Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Creativity
Finished
Fragmented
People
Polished
Thinking
Tunes
Biggest
Biggest Obstacle
Obstacle
Product
Sit
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When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Crush
Hate
Trying
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I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Capture
Electricity
Magnetic
Particles
Tape
Limited
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I guess my path feels sort of different now... I don't know what's going to happen, but I certainly want to make music a bigger part of my life in the future than it has been for the last couple of years.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Couple
Different
Path
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I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Active
Manifest
Images
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The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Bridges
Awhile
Lyrically
Spontaneously
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For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music from around the world as something that fits into their lives or their psyche in any way. So I tried to present it in a different way to give it more of a chance to sink into people's heads.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Different
Giving
People
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I realized that even though I believe with my whole heart in the power of music... it didn't provide any solid answers on how to heal myself and heal others so that they could overcome what had happened to them. I realized that I wanted to take a deeper look at life in order to be some kind of truly healing force in people's everyday lives.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Believe
Healing
Heart
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You know, you struggle and cry and moan and thrash around and beat your head against the wall... and then you realize that you're just yourself, and you come to terms with yourself struggling. There are some serious, serious things to deal with in terms of the immensity of the suffering that we humans create for ourselves and for the world around us.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Struggle
Suffering
Wall
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Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is destructive. You know, being jealous is a perfectly natural thing to feel, so it's not about suppressing jealousy, but learning to come to terms with it and to recognize its destructiveness and then to transform it.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Jealous
People
Romantic Love
Thinking
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When so many of our dreams had come true and yet I still saw that so many of my friends were in a lot of pain... I saw their pain from a different perspective and realized that I can't just sing my way out of all this suffering. I have to try to understand human nature and myself and the nature of suffering and a lot of these other issues on a deeper level.
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Dream
Pain
Perspective
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I think that so much of the creative process is a fragmentary one, and then it's about just allowing your intuition to put it together for you. It's funny how you create something and you think you're going in a million different directions, and then the thing you end up with is the thing that you wanted to create your whole life, but you're just as surprised by it as anybody else.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Creative
Intuition
Thinking
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I'm trying to find peace in the world, as it is. I'm feeling this sort of slow stripping of my mind, like the layers of an onion. I'm starting to see through all these little structures that have been imposed on me by my society that tell me how I'm supposed to view my life and the world. What I'm supposed to find to be important and what is not. Sometimes you see through so much of it that you feel like you're just a leaf blowing on the wind.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Feelings
Important
Mind
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We consider the animals to be lower, and to me, that makes no sense at all. If you look at a tree or a mushroom or a squirrel, it's perfectly in tune with itself. It has no problem being exactly what it is, and it does what it's meant to do without any complaints or problems. Because we create all these problems in being, we think we're somehow higher than the animals. But it's we humans who have a difficult time even caring for our children, or anything.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Caring
Children
Thinking
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I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in terms of how I related to life. At some point, my rational mind started creeping in, and it would not shut up. I finally had to address it and confront it. I think most intelligent people, at a younger age than I have, begin to question some of the fundamental assumptions our society promotes. But me, I just rejected it without even considering it.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Intelligent
People
Thinking
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Typically there are little fragments of specific words and images swimming around in my mind, and then at some point, I'll sit down with the guitar and everything will fall into place. It's like your brain is a drain with a bunch of words and images dropping into it, swirling around. The drain is stopped up, but you can feel these things dropping into it. Then at some point, someone comes along and pulls the plug out of the drain and everything comes together in the song.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Fall
Song
Swimming
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I feel like we're so limited by the context at which we look at life. The way we look at who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to love... everything. I feel like that, in and of itself, is a project of a lifetime: the problem of how to break out of the limiting context that is imposed upon us by the educational system, by the church, by our parents... As a kid I rejected it without even thinking about it. Now that I'm a little older, I see how deeply destructive it really is.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Kids
Educational
Thinking
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Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Buddhism
Nice
Pain
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We can see an anthill or a roach or a flower or anything, but we have this frame where our mind recognizes an anthill and then moves on, without taking the opportunity to have the sense of awe that we could have if we really looked at it. The montage is about taking pieces of reality and rearranging them - creating new frames to make you have to stop and look at things in a fresh way. It's basically taking pieces of everyday reality and rearranging them to show people the magic that is inherent in all of these things already.
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Opportunity
Flower
Moving
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I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little too big... the issues seemed too large for me to confront intuitively through songwriting. I kept pushing it and pushing it. There are so many issues about being human and why people inflict pain on each other. There were seeds of all these things I hadn't dealt with. With just the personal issues, I felt I was in over my head, but then to write about it... To write you have to have at least a little bit of confidence you know what you're talking about.
Jeff Mangum / Musician
Pain
Song
Writing
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