Justin Vernon Quotes

I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

I go and see music all the time.

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

It's our approach to treat each show like an arena show. We over-invest in production to make the stage look bigger, turning the show into an experience and not just somebody standing around with a microphone rapping.

I remember the last time the Grateful Dead played in Seattle, at the Seattle Center. I was living there, and after the show, I was walking to work near there, and I'd never seen so much debris. There were mountains of garbage.

The transformation that happens when a young artist goes on the road - you put the acoustic guitar down and start to play the electric a little louder - it gets a little bit ragged.

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.

I'm a singer-songwriter, but we get loud and we jump around. We have dance moves; we freak out. It's really fun, man!

In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since.

Go out and support your local rock n' roll band.

I did a tour down South someplace, and it was an all-day festival, and there were about 2,000 people. It was pouring down rain, and I went to grab the mic, and I got electrocuted. I felt the electricity flow through my body.

We saw Bring Me The Horizon, they're really amazing and we had so much of a fun time.

I've always seen my movies in particular as being an immersive experience. I mean, with the technology at my disposal, I've always tried to make them as immersive an experience as possible.

My mother met my father at a Roy Acuff concert.

Download was one of the best festivals I've ever been to.

New Day rocks. I can't lie.

The concept and vision of 'Electronic Nature' is to give my fans a fully immersive sensory experience of music, visuals and more.

Warped Tour is completely in a league of its own. It's this crazy cross between a real, full tour and a festival.

I saw Metallica, I'm not a major Metallica fan, but I like music enough to get invited and went.

We saw The Who on New Year's Eve in 1975.

Some of my friends really rock out: Matt and Kim, Diplo, when RuPaul was performing. Beyonce... there's tons of people I saw perform and was like, 'I just want my crowd to be awesome like this!'

Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.

My biggest moments have been in Philly - I met Jay-Z and Beyonce in Philly, I did the Powerhouse in Philly.