Quotes by Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

Church

Fantastic

Sound

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

Bandits

Bells

Cups

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I’ve written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

Heart

Home

Trying

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. “Nancy Drew,” she whispered, “be with me now.

Benediction

Nancy

Saint

I don’t feel like we’re setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don’t want to set up an attitude where we’re telling people ‘You can’t listen to our music if you don’t have a college degree.

Attitude

College

People

I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

Contemporary

Novel

Stuff

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

Average

Book

School

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone – that’s about it.

Dip

Range

Wish

I’d rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

Loyal

Selling

Strong

If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it’s the worst stuff that’s mired in pop music.

Iron

Wine

Writing

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Advent

Ambitious

Attitude

Average

Baby

Band

Bandits

Beautiful

Bells

Benediction

Book

Buying

Children

Church

College

Contemporary

Cups

Dip

Expectations

Fantastic

Fragile

Guitar

Heart

Home

Iron

Kids

Kind

Littles

Loyal

Nancy

Novel

Pain

People

Race

Range

Records

Rocks

Saint

School

Selling

Should

Song

Sound

Strong

Stuff

Thinking

Trying

War

Wine

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Quotes by Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I’ve written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. “Nancy Drew,” she whispered, “be with me now.

I don’t feel like we’re setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don’t want to set up an attitude where we’re telling people ‘You can’t listen to our music if you don’t have a college degree.

I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone – that’s about it.

I’d rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it’s the worst stuff that’s mired in pop music.

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