I don't have time for language poetry anymore. I don't want to throw people off anymore. — David Berman Language Copy Share Image
I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians. — David Berman Believe Copy Share Image
Lyrically, country music is the most satisfying music for me. — David Berman Country Copy Share Image
All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was. — David Berman Album Copy Share Image
“I passed out on the fourteenth floor. The CPR was so erotic.” — David Berman Erotic Copy Share Image
When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction. — David Berman Band Copy Share Image
I imagine that I'm less famous than the 15th ranked bowler in the world. — David Berman Bowler Copy Share Image
I always had a background belief in God. In other words, instinctually I've never doubted that we are not alone. — David Berman Alone 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… — David Berman Education 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 Art Copy Share Image
We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our… — David Berman Addiction 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… — David Berman Control 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 Like Copy Share Image
I've had to stop going to the nearest grocery store that seems to play Shania Twain's 'Forever and For Always' whenever I'm… — David Berman Face Copy Share Image
The overlap between Pavement's fan base and people who liked Silver Jews was total. In my mind, even a local band with… — David Berman Band Copy Share Image
In the beginning, it was meant to be like a faceless art piece. Then I did the first record and it received… — David Berman Art Copy Share Image
For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived,… — David Berman Compass 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 Business 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… — David Berman Aliens 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 Critics Copy Share Image
Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world… — David Berman Award ceremonies Copy Share Image
Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall… — David Berman Admirable Copy Share Image
Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't… — David Berman Hard Copy Share Image
“There are things I've given up on Like recording funny answering machine messages. It's part of growing older And the human race… — David Berman Comedy Copy Share Image
