Good guy Quote by Carey Mercer

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

— Carey Mercer

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

— Carey Mercer

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…

— Carey Mercer

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…

— Carey Mercer

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…

— Carey Mercer

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

— Carey Mercer

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…

— Carey Mercer

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…

— Carey Mercer

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,…

— Carey Mercer

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…

— Carey Mercer

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

— Carey Mercer

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

— Carey Mercer