Song Quotes by Phil Elverum

Music is only good sometimes.

— Phil Elverum

I do like playing music with other people.

— Phil Elverum

I like a bass drum. A big one.

— Phil Elverum

It feels weird to play songs that I don't really... feel any more.

— Phil Elverum

Even when I was calling myself the Microphones I only really ever played new songs... because I feel, like, a pretty strong…

— Phil Elverum

My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would…

— Phil Elverum

I'm really nervous about coming off as exclusive or elitist. At the same time, I recognize that when I put out vinyl…

— Phil Elverum

Eric's Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring.…

— Phil Elverum

There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on…

— Phil Elverum

It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still…

— Phil Elverum

I buy some black metal records kind of blindly, and I end up really liking maybe 30% of them. There's a lot…

— Phil Elverum

I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows…

— Phil Elverum

There's a lot of music out there that's like, 'I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color…

— Phil Elverum

The Beach Boys were my favorite. I use to listen to their hits over and over, especially 'In My Room' and 'Don't…

— Phil Elverum

These people that worked with my dad doing landscaping were in a grunge band so the music on the cover of Rolling…

— Phil Elverum

I need some time to write songs and work on my thing, but I'm just living my life and doing family stuff…

— Phil Elverum

I'm singing these songs about death and stuff. I see somebody who's, like, in their sixties or seventies at the show, and…

— Phil Elverum

My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I'd never gotten into punk. I don't really like that music…

— Phil Elverum

I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also…

— Phil Elverum

Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could…

— Phil Elverum

I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre,…

— Phil Elverum

Nirvana was happening when I was 14, kind of the perfect age. Growing up in Anacortes, Washington, it was close enough to…

— Phil Elverum

I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy…

— Phil Elverum