Quotes by Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: “Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B.”

Eye

Feet

Writing

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it’s got no meaning.

Crow

Grieving

Leaving

Having friends who are records nerds – that’s the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

Geek

Nerd

Records

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

Cities

Moving

New York

I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

Mistake

Waiting

I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

Impact

Thinking

Video

I find Mexico exciting to visit, but I think [it] is looked down upon. Mexico is not a very respected place, unless you’re Mexican, and even then it’s something of a love/hate relationship.

Hate

Mexican

Thinking

I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.

Important

Ocean

Swim

I hate having my photograph taken and I try to keep that in mind when I’m photographing other people. But the best photos that I’ve taken are the ones when people have forgotten that I’m there. If I’m in a recording studio with a musician, for example, maybe I’m not photographing them in the middle of a take but I can just get that stolen moment of them resting and they glance over to me.

Hate

People

Taken

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it’s going still.

Heard

Today

War

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Art

Beautiful

Book

California

Cities

Comfort

Crow

Different

Effort

Environment

Eye

Feet

Feminist

Geek

Giving

Grieving

Has Beens

Hate

Heard

Helping

House

Impact

Important

Kind

Leaving

Love You

Mean

Mexican

Mistake

Moving

Nerd

New York

Ocean

People

Profound

Real

Records

Secret

Sensitivity

Song

Successful

Swim

Taken

Texas

Thinking

Today

Trying

Video

Voting

Waiting

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Quotes by Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: “Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B.”

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it’s got no meaning.

Having friends who are records nerds – that’s the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

I find Mexico exciting to visit, but I think [it] is looked down upon. Mexico is not a very respected place, unless you’re Mexican, and even then it’s something of a love/hate relationship.

I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it’s going still.

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