Quotes by Mac DeMarco

Mac DeMarco

‘Salad Days’ refers to a youthful or innocent period. And a lot of people having been asking me already so you jaded? And I’m not, I’m 23. It’s me reflecting, I had to re-learn to have fun with music and I had to re-count my blessings.

Blessing

Fun

People

[ If I wasn’t making music ] I’d probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber’s ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

Giving Up

Moving

School

[Chamber of Reflection off of Salad Days]I think it’s probably that one. There’s no guitar on that song, I’ve never recorded a song with absolutely no guitar, which is interesting. The idea behind it, well it’s a Free Mason reference because before they become Free Mason’s they had to go into this room called the Chamber of Reflection where they think about the life they brought with them, the life they’ve lived up until this point and all their wrong and right doings. And that’s basically what I did with this album.

Reflection

Song

Thinking

[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style.

New York

Queens

Style

[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.

Jobs

Lasts

Years

[My House By The Water] is a nice instrumental track. The sound of the water is from the same place where the front photo was taken. I live really close to the airport, so there’s also planes going over. It’s kind of to remind me of living in there, because I’m not gonna be living in there for very much longer.

Airports

Nice

Taken

Connan Mockasin from New Zealand. I met him a little while ago, I love his music.

Littles

Mets

New Zealand

Everybody’s a multifaceted, emotional, living being, I think. Sometimes it’s fun to goof around, sometimes you’ve got to think about things, sometimes you’ve got to be strange, and then you’ve got to be jiggly. That’s just what being a human’s all about.

Emotional

Fun

Thinking

Going on tour, you don’t have a lot of time to mull things over. You’re just kind of, “Another beer, another show, another song.”

Beer

Over You

Song

I didn’t want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, “This looks good!”.

Music Is

Office

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Boys

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Cold

Complaining

Confused

Cost

Country

Couple

Crazy

Cups

Cutting

Dog

Done

Emotional

Europe

Everyday

Example

Fans

Fit

Fun

Girl

Giving Up

Goal

Growing Up

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Guy

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Hate

Heart

Home

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Important

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Quotes by Mac DeMarco

Mac DeMarco

‘Salad Days’ refers to a youthful or innocent period. And a lot of people having been asking me already so you jaded? And I’m not, I’m 23. It’s me reflecting, I had to re-learn to have fun with music and I had to re-count my blessings.

[ If I wasn’t making music ] I’d probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber’s ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style.

[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.

Connan Mockasin from New Zealand. I met him a little while ago, I love his music.

Everybody’s a multifaceted, emotional, living being, I think. Sometimes it’s fun to goof around, sometimes you’ve got to think about things, sometimes you’ve got to be strange, and then you’ve got to be jiggly. That’s just what being a human’s all about.

Going on tour, you don’t have a lot of time to mull things over. You’re just kind of, “Another beer, another show, another song.”

I didn’t want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, “This looks good!”.

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