Quotes by Kevin Morby - Page 1

My favorite songwriters are all solo artists.
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Solo
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There was never a thought of career in my brain ever for anything.
Kevin Morby /
Brain
Careers
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As far as dream venues, I've played all the venues I'd love to play.
Kevin Morby /
Venues
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Paris has always shown a lot of love towards my music, and I am very grateful.
Kevin Morby /
Love Music I Am
Shown
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I wanted to write a song called '#1234' that would act as a homage to The Ramones.
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Homage
Ramones
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On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.
Kevin Morby /
Grit
Loose
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I guess now I view music as my career. I want to do it forever, regardless of whether or not it's my means of living.
Kevin Morby /
Careers
Mean
Views
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When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.
Kevin Morby /
Exactly What
Reflect
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Anytime I'm locked out of somewhere with another person, I can usually pick the lock successfully. And then I feel like James Bond.
Kevin Morby /
Anytime
Bond
James
James Bond
Lock
Successfully
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The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.
Kevin Morby /
Light
Meals
Thinking
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'Reign' - and this might sound cheesy, but it's a dream I had. I dreamt everything that happened in that song, woke up, and wrote the song.
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Cheesy
Reign
Dreamt
Woke
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I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.
Kevin Morby /
Abstract
Play
Thinking
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I feel like 'Harlem River' was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and 'Still Life' is between Point A and Point B. It's the grey area.
Kevin Morby /
New York
Grey
Harlem
Area
Life Me New
Door
Foot
Putting
River
York
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I do not know what kind of relationship Jim Carroll and The Ramones had, though I imagine they all knew each other, as they ran in the same scene.
Kevin Morby /
Ramones
Jim
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I remember my mom telling me that when John Belushi died, my dad cried. I remember thinking that was strange as a child, but today, I kind of get it.
Kevin Morby /
Cried
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I just love the idea of never seeing a city before and seeing the glow in the distance, and it just looking frightening, like you're driving into a fire.
Kevin Morby /
Distance
Frightening
Glow
Just Looking
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I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.
Kevin Morby /
Play
Practice
Song
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I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.
Kevin Morby /
Albums
People
Thinking
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I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.
Kevin Morby /
Baby
Song
Writing
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I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records, those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.
Kevin Morby /
Babies
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To be alive at all is so crazy, to experience the wide spectrum of feelings and emotions is so wild, but we have nothing else to compare it to, so it becomes normal.
Kevin Morby /
Alive
Compare
Normal
Spectrum
Wide
Wild
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You're at LaGuardia, and you get in a cab, and it's taking you into Brooklyn, and you're on the BQE, and you can see the skyline, the whole skyline, and it's so beautiful.
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Brooklyn
Cab
Skyline
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I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.
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Jobs
New York
Insane
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I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a cafe, and I did bike delivery, and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.
Kevin Morby /
Jobs
New York
Bike
Cases
Delivery
Insane
Cafe
Worked
York
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I had a very easy middle class upbringing and never had to worry about anything. But my parents came from nothing and from broken homes, and their stories were always very interesting.
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Broken
Middle Class
Upbringing
Homes
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I'm a really big Fiona Apple fan, and more times than not, when I put her on in the car, people are surprised. I think they associate her less as a songwriter and more as a '90s MTV generation artist.
Kevin Morby /
Mtv
Apple
Associate
Generation
Surprised
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My dad grew up in western Nebraska. I'd visit all the time as a kid, and it's very much like the Wild West. It felt to me like a cowboy movie. Stuff like that made me become this dreamer at a young age.
Kevin Morby /
Movie
Age
Dad
Cowboy
Felt
Grew
Nebraska
Stuff
West
Wild West
Young
Young Age
Time Dad Me
Time Age Me
Time Age Dad
Wild
Visit
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One of my favorite movie characters is Mother Sister from Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing.' It is such a beautiful name, and she is such a beautiful character, Mother Sister, the all-seeing eye over the block.
Kevin Morby /
Sister
Block
Eye
Right Thing
Do The Right Thing
Favorite Movie
Lee
Spike
The Right Thing
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
Kevin Morby /
Heard
Selling
Solo
Surprise
Tickets
Time Mind Me
Blew
Complete
Tour
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One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight, and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you.
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Cop
Fascinated
Homeless
Dude
Observations
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'Reign' is probably the oldest one on the record. I wrote that when I was 19. 'The Dead They Don't Come Back,' which is the last song on the album, I wrote when I was 20, and 'Harlem River' I just wrote last year. It spans from 2007 to 2012.
Kevin Morby /
Harlem
Last Year
Reign
Song
Album
Back
Dead
Record
Last
Oldest
River
Spans
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I love Baltimore. It is a city with a giant heart and has remained one of my favorite places to keep returning to on tour. It is unique and beautiful, and you can't mistake it for anywhere else in the world - Baltimore is one hundred percent Baltimore.
Kevin Morby /
Favorite Places
Love Beautiful Heart
Anywhere Else
Giant
Remained
Returning
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'Harlem River' is about the Harlem River in uptown Manhattan. I don't know much to say about it. I came upon that river a couple of years ago. I was doing a walk the length of Manhattan, from the top to the bottom, and I had never seen that river before.
Kevin Morby /
Bottom
Couple
Harlem
Length
Manhattan
Years Ago
Seen
Came
Walk
River
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A lot of what I've written that's made its way onto my records I've written in Kansas, which is interesting because I've never written about Kansas. But I go have these experiences. and I'll be back at my parents house, and it's like I'm in a safe incubator.
Kevin Morby /
Incubator
Onto
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My hair - it's baby thin and feathery and drives me crazy no matter what I do with it. It's weird because you see people with thicker hair that just kind of stays put, but if I'm in any sort of weather, I look like Bill Murray in 'Kingpin' when it starts to all come unleashed.
Kevin Morby /
Unleashed
Weather
Weird
Bill
Bill Murray
Drives
Look Me Weird
Just Kind
Stays
Thicker
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'Rock Bottom Riser' by Smog - I was just in Europe, and my jet lag never really went away. I wasn't sleeping very much. Then one night, my girlfriend saw a Bill Callahan show in L.A. and took a video of that song and sent it to me. I was just listening to it over and over - it was comforting.
Kevin Morby /
Bottom
Comforting
Europe
Jet
Lag
Night
Song
Video
Bill
Me Song Listening
Saw
Rock
Sent
Sleeping
Took
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When I first moved to New York in 2006, I spent most of my time hanging out at and going to shows at a punk house in Crown Heights called The Fort where, amongst many roommates, my friend Johnny lived. Johnny loves The Germs, the legendary L.A. punk band fronted by the late, great Darby Crash.
Kevin Morby /
Crash
Legendary
My Time
Punk
Time Great New
Amongst
Crown
Fort
Hanging
Heights
Johnny
My Friend
Roommates
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I always considered myself a songwriter, but I didn't move to New York with plans of doing that; it just sort of happened. Everyone thinks that I moved to New York strictly to play music, but I totally just happened to fall into playing with Woods, and it all got started from there. I just went to New York to hang out.
Kevin Morby /
Plans
Woods
Music Myself New
Play Music
Strictly
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When I think about the most exotic, beautiful places, Porto is at the front of my mind. It's incredible, man. You have an idea of what Europe is like as an American, and people talk about Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, which are all great, but it wasn't until I went to Porto that I felt that idea of this exotic, beautiful, timeless place.
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Beautiful Places
Berlin
Exotic
Stockholm
Timeless
Great Beautiful Man
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I grew up in the Midwest and never really felt at home there, and when I got to New York, I was really fearless. I feel like I really fell in love with the the place. But then, it's a place where your world is really big at first and then becomes really small. I found myself hardly leaving my neighborhood, like I made it into a small town.
Kevin Morby /
Neighborhood
Small Town
Love Home Myself
Hardly
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A great day on tour would be if I would say a two-hour drive, so you can wake up and you don't have to leave right away. You can go get breakfast somewhere nice that someone recommends in the town, and it turns out to be good. Then you can kind of check out the town, someone might recommend you to a cool thrift store, a record store, a nice park or something. You can have some time to yourself.
Kevin Morby /
Great Day
Nice
Wake Up
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One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you. You're on foot and everyone is at street level and eye-to-eye. I think that's what's special about New York, because there's no hierarchy, there's no discrimination.
Kevin Morby /
New York
Eye
Thinking
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