Culture Quote by Carey Mercer

“The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.”

Carey Mercer

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An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

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You don't expect people to go, "music has just been reinvented!" But the hope is that people won't say, "this is the most boring…

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It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry... it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like a mystery…

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It's pretty awesome to be in a band with your wife! The tour, it beats you down, and we can just share that, and…

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Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in…

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We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that…

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It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh yeah, they sound like Tom Waits, with those trashcan drums.' But at the same time, it sounds so good! And it introduces this... I mean, it's not tuned, but somehow it adds…

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I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this other happiness, and this emotional response. So, I can't be like, "that doesn't matter to me, I'm an artist, I exist apart from that!" But on the other hand, if you buy into that too much, you're setting…

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Bruegel has these paintings of people just... interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of nature, it's…

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We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always…

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One thing I've always been proud of is that vicious dichotomy between the pretty controlled, angular playing of the band, and my - I…

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Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

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