My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I love polished pop music, but stuff like Neil Young's Crazy Horse vibe or Waylon Jennings, that stuff is raw and real. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
There were a few verses that I wrote literally on the spot. But the concept was there. It's about being in your… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
There's downtime in music, which obviously is necessary or else you'd lose your mind in other ways, but if we're on tour… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
It was just the next logical step from making succinct pop songs. What do you do after that? You make pop songs… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I like New York. I like Philly. I like San Fran. I like when people are stoked. But Chicago's a real music… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie - and then… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm biased because I'm from there. It's close enough to New York but it's not swallowed up by New York's hustle and bustle.… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
I get to come home to my family. It's awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just liked their… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
