Fan reaction is so out-sized and hyperbolic in rock music compared to other arts. — David Berman Copy Share Image
It's a Gen X thing to be okay with going unnoticed or unrated or untouched. To be free from strangers' expectations, or… — David Berman Copy Share Image
The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies.… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Intellectuals and creative people, once they start talking about God they get put into this other category: 'I don't go to people's… — David Berman Copy Share Image
If critics were harder on the musicians that they love, there would be better songs. But as they grow older and they… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I grew up the son of a businessman. And I didn't get into music to be a businessman. — David Berman Copy Share Image
All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords. — David Berman Copy Share Image
It frustrated me at college that all the acts in the Top 10 were like The Moody Blues and Phil Collins. It… — David Berman Copy Share Image
In my whole life, I've had maybe 10 people who have told me how much my music means to them. — David Berman Copy Share Image
I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians. — David Berman Copy Share Image
Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds.… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I don't know if I actually respect other artists as people as much as I should. I look at their work as excellent data… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Some nights I'm funny with the between-song commentary, some nights I'm not. I have no control over this. I pace the stage a lot… — David Berman Copy Share Image
...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“Nude descending a staircase headless, not knowing where she is going but brave because all dreams lack conclusions and she is not enlisted to… — David Berman Copy Share Image
For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world,… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just can't make… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Fan reaction is so out-sized and hyperbolic in rock music compared to other arts. — David Berman Copy Share Image
I mean, I wasn't fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would be interesting… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what… — David Berman Copy Share Image
