--- title: "11 Kind Quotes By Michael Stipe" description: "11 Kind quotes by Michael Stipe. Plus more from Michael Stipe and more Kind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/michael-stipe-6714_international_we-re-kind-of-an-international-phenomeno_980456.png" --- > [We're kind of an international phenomenon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/we-re-kind-of-an-international-phenomenon/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/michael-stipe-6714_international_we-re-kind-of-an-international-phenomeno_980456.png) > [ I'm kind of quoting Thurston \[Moore\] and Kim \[Gordon\] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-m-kind-of-quoting-thurston-moore-and-kim-gordon-in-saying-that/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bb/michael-stipe-6714_addict_i-m-kind-of-quoting-thurston-moore-and-k_3113368.png) > [So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/so-we-just-kind-of-created-our-own-thing-and-that-s-part-of-the/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef7/michael-stipe-6714_athens_so-we-just-kind-of-created-our-own-thing_2701698.png) > [So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/so-we-went-from-being-an-athens-band-to-being-a-georgia-band-to-being/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/michael-stipe-6714_athens_so-we-went-from-being-an-athens-band-to_526308.png) > [For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/for-me-as-a-music-fan-visuals-kind-of-steal-away-the-purity-of-the/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd5/michael-stipe-6714_fans_for-me-as-a-music-fan-visuals-kind-of-st_1135361.png) > [There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/there-are-people-that-very-strongly-identify-themselves-as-gay-and/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66c/michael-stipe-6714_gay_there-are-people-that-very-strongly-iden_543367.jpg) > [By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/by-the-time-i-was-18-i-had-absorbed-punk-rock-from-america-britain/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b88/michael-stipe-6714_air_by-the-time-i-was-18-i-had-absorbed-punk_863104.jpg) > [ I went through this difficult time \[in the 1984\] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-went-through-this-difficult-time-in-the-1984-when-we-were-making/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cc/michael-stipe-6714_bulimia_i-went-through-this-difficult-time-in-th_1393702.png) > [When I hear music as a fan, I see fields. I see landscapes. I close my eyes and see an entire universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/when-i-hear-music-as-a-fan-i-see-fields-i-see-landscapes-i-close-my/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/064/michael-stipe-6714_eye_when-i-hear-music-as-a-fan-i-see-fields_1822389.png) > [The artwork for the record is kind of an homage to that. It's a collage, which rhymes with homage, I just realized.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/the-artwork-for-the-record-is-kind-of-an-homage-to-that-it-s-a/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86e/michael-stipe-6714_artwork_the-artwork-for-the-record-is-kind-of-an_542094.jpg) > [When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/when-we-signed-with-warner-bros-they-knew-what-they-were-getting-they/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a4/michael-stipe-6714_bros_when-we-signed-with-warner-bros-they-kne_1634284.png) ## Other authors on Kind ## More by Michael Stipe > [We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/we-don-t-get-groupies-we-get-teenagers-who-want-to-read-us-their/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [ At the \[teenage\] time, I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from other people… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/at-the-teenage-time-i-did-have-an-inkling-of-my-sexuality-and-i-had/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-don-t-find-r-e-m-to-be-nihilistic-there-is-a-constant-undertone-of/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [ I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt \[Cobain\] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-simply-constructed-a-project-to-try-to-snap-kurt-cobain-out-of-a/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-was-vulnerable-every-day-every-night-that-i-stepped-on-stage-i-was/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/we-re-absolutely-american-and-distinctly-so-i-think-that-s-part-of/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [ \[Columbia House\] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/columbia-house-magazines-were-how-i-found-out-about-the-punk-world/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-m-tired-of-being-this-solemn-poet-of-the-masses-the-enigma-shrouded/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/frankly-i-m-not-great-with-heroin-addicts-i-tried-heroin-but-it-was/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/the-whole-punk-ethic-was-do-it-yourself-and-i-ve-always-been-very/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [They spoke truth and a lot of people listened… that voice, Kurt we miss you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/they-spoke-truth-and-a-lot-of-people-listened-that-voice-kurt-we-miss/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/a-wise-man-once-said-the-skill-in-attending-a-party-is-knowing-when/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/they-always-want-me-to-play-myself-and-that-s-a-big-snooze/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/anything-you-do-as-a-group-is-fraught-with-compromise-but-everyone-s/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) > [To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/to-be-called-an-elder-statesman-is-so-unbelievably-insulting-brad/) [Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind/michael-stipe/#itemlist", "name": "11 Kind Quotes By Michael Stipe", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We're kind of an international phenomenon.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Stipe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/we-re-kind-of-an-international-phenomenon/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/827/michael-stipe-6714_international_we-re-kind-of-an-international-phenomeno_980456.png", "contentUrl": 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