Michael Stipe Quotes

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• So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper…
• Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
• I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think…
• On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on…
• My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.
• I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.
• I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.
• I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
• And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.
• Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they…
• If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.
• I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
• A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,'
• Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...
• Love, love will be my strongest weapon
• There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are…
• We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were…
• The world of WONDERLAND is authentic, vibrant, and genuine. Stacey D’Erasmo explores the delight and terror of second chances. A great read!
• The only thing to fear is fearlessness.
• By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able…

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