Phil Elverum Quotes

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'

You can't just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

I'm a fan of records you get and you listen to them from beginning to finish - records where everything is there for a purpose. There was never any filler on those records - it was all well planned out.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.

When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music!

I want to do, like, 50 records.

I don't want to be a rapper that puts out, like, 600 songs a year.

Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because... Batman... didn't want a double album'

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

People don't make albums any more. It's always about singles. I wanted to take that old-school approach.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

I don’t need the money. I don’t care if I make a dime on this. Let me make a good record.

I just put out a hardcore double album. Next I'm gonna put out an introspective album.

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.

I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas. Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

I've been producing records, and as early as my late teens, early 20s, I put out a hip-hop record and then the Ringside stuff. You know, I just feel like I want to spend these years realizing all of my ambitions. I feel like we live in an age in which you can chase your dreams with focus and a vision.