Mark Stoermer quotes

“When I was growing up, I would listen to a different album almost every night. I would do the full album experience before I went to bed and that's how I would discover a lot of music. I would kind of go into another world with my headphones on.”
-- Mark Stoermer

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“I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.”
-- Mark Stoermer

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“I was always an album guy, not a greatest hits kind of guy, not so much a radio guy. I'm not saying one is better than the other but... It was like reading a novel but shorter than that. You go into a world for an hour and you absorb yourself into it rather than just passively listening and flipping through this and that.”
-- Mark Stoermer

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“I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.”
-- Mark Stoermer

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“I was lucky enough to just play music as a living and not have a nine-to-five job. I didn't have to pay the bills so I was able to experiment.”
-- Mark Stoermer

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“I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.”
-- Mark Stoermer

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Growing Quotes

“I might be a completely different kind of songwriter but I definitely think there are some things... I've taken pieces from different people that I've met and worked with along the way from the Killers experience, within the band and without.”
-- Mark Stoermer

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“Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.”

“Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.”

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”

“You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.”

“No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.”

“I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.”

“Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.”

“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books

“Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.”