A thing can be too pretty and perfect, so if you kick some dirt on it, then it feels like you wore… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing having a recording be part of your career. It means you can go back and revisit yourself, in… — Samuel Ervin Beam Career Copy Share Image
Love songs are helpful. We've always needed as much love as we could possibly need. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I like to keep working and keep changing. It's a hopeful, optimistic thing to think and sit about what you could do… — Samuel Ervin Beam Blind Copy Share Image
People always say, 'Why don't you play more sets in Texas?' and I say, 'Dude, why don't you come babysit?' — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I would love to be able to do the pace that people used to do decades ago, where you'd make a record… — Samuel Ervin Beam Love Copy Share Image
I make music and hope people enjoy it - but when they do it's always a surprise. A nice surprise, but not… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
The Beatles showed with 'Sgt. Pepper's' that you can make an album out of anything, just make it seem like it's connected. — Samuel Ervin Beam Album Copy Share Image
I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet.… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I listen to everything: noise, classical, jazz. I like lots of different types of food. There's no way you could get me… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I went to an art school and you learn very quickly there that you're only as good as your next idea, not… — Samuel Ervin Beam Art Copy Share Image
I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
The things that have been most popular with people have always been a total surprise, and so I've never felt like I… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I was just writing songs in my spare time, and recording because it's fun to do, and Sub Pop called me and… — Samuel Ervin Beam Commitment Copy Share Image
I am not interested in political writing, because it's limited in its scope. I try to write general, human kinds of songs,… — Samuel Ervin Beam Human Copy Share Image
I have a certain amount of creative energy, and it used to go painting. Now most of it goes to music. I… — Samuel Ervin Beam Creative Copy Share Image
Every time I play with a new musician I absorb something, even if it's someone you don't like! — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
My folks had a lot of Motown records, so that was a kind of an early inspiration. I grew up on the… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad. — Samuel Ervin Beam Art Copy Share Image
