Kurt Vile Quotes

I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.

Not everyone who writes about you is going to be a fan of your music.

It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

The riffs, lyrics, and drums of 'Open Your Omen' will tell you a lot.

Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

We live for our concerts. We like a live appearance more than anything else about this business and it bothers us when we put so much into it and the critics bomb us.

I feel like 'Pitchfork' has a style, and you always know what they're gonna say and what they're gonna pick apart.

There are a lot of great albums that take a year to connect.

There's definitely a couple of people I'll play stuff to when it's nearly finished just to see what they think; Mark, our producer, his wife is Australian and just listens to the radio - she's awesome - and, I guess, is quite a casual music listener.

I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno's fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought it was all jazz.

I love Frank Ocean. For me, 'Channel Orange' is the best LP ever. I love his voice, the songwriting, everything.

People take music too seriously.

It's too easy now to find music, and it's therefore too easy to dismiss music, particularly music that doesn't hit you the first time you hear it.

I am very conscious of first sampling the music and then getting it out for fans.

I don't mind being criticised, but hearing yourself described as the next James Blunt - that hurts.

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.

I don't much listen to music as I study it: who's doing what, who wrote it.

I don't deny that I study everything. Stuff from the 70s, 80s, 90s, current I watch it all.

Every song with lyrics is lyrical.

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.