Quotes by Michael Gira

Michael Gira

As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that’s what I was born to do. I’m an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

Born

Feels

Festivals

At a certain age, children are total Id – they’re anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where the ego and the superego start, and where guilt and socialization and morality takes place, the true root of it.

Beautiful

Children

Flower

I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to “make it” in the stinking music business, to become “famous” etc, and it disgusts me.

People

Stupid

Trying

I could never release something on the label I didn’t personally love. The label’s really an extension of my own musical career, and I’m intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it’d be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

Betrayal

Careers

Musical

I don’t throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I’m sure I’d snap like a twig.

Body

Stage

Twigs

I don’t want to sound like everybody else.

Sound

Want

I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn’t want to write the lyrics, but if there was a howler in there, I definitely pointed it out. Just trying to bring it up to a higher level. Of course, after a couple records, people get fed up with that. That’s fine.

Couple

Song

Writing

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I’m not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

Answers

Records

Want

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

Guitar

Loud

Sound

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. But I can’t find myself in a situation where our band Swans is doing typical chord progressions – it just seems cliché to me. Even changing chords sounds like a cliché sometimes, though it happens occasionally in our music. But you find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn’t stay the same. It morphs constantly.

Progression

Push Yourself

Sometimes

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Able

Air

Alive

Always Trying

Animal

Answers

Approval

Art

Asks

Attitude

Band

Beautiful

Betrayal

Body

Born

Careers

Cds

Children

Commitment

Couple

Crush

Feels

Female

Festivals

Fire

Flower

Form

Friction

Glasses

Goal

Guitar

Hammers

Hatred

Healthy

Ifs

Important

Leader

Loud

Made

Mouths

Moving Forward

Musical

New York

Opposites

People

Personality

Philosophy

Progression

Projects

Push Yourself

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Quotes by Michael Gira

Michael Gira

As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that’s what I was born to do. I’m an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

At a certain age, children are total Id – they’re anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where the ego and the superego start, and where guilt and socialization and morality takes place, the true root of it.

I could never release something on the label I didn’t personally love. The label’s really an extension of my own musical career, and I’m intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it’d be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

I don’t throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I’m sure I’d snap like a twig.

I don’t want to sound like everybody else.

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I’m not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

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