There are enough really good love songs and I don't even know if I could write one if I tried. — 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
I have this Martin electric/acoustic that's made of black formica. Really cool. — David Berman Copy Share Image
For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear… — David Berman Copy Share Image
When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction. — David Berman Copy Share Image
Some people like my singing. But it sounds like bad singing to a lot of other people. — David Berman Copy Share Image
I ask myself when I see a new album: 'Is this an album that they needed to make, or do they need… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37. — David Berman Copy Share Image
I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing… — 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
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
I still believe in putting something out and not asking people to buy the record, then buy a ticket to my show… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I heard Springsteen was an unhappy person. I don't know, I haven't read his biography. But a lot of people in my… — 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… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn't write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I don't think any songwriter who comes up through playing clubs can really claim to have independently developed their art. All along… — 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
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
In 2004, I don't think any Silver Jews fan was probably expecting another record. — 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
