Words matter. These are the best Michael Stipe Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Super casual music listeners. That’s most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that’s why Top 40 radio exists. It’s not there for people who seek out music and who love music.
When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we’re kind of an international phenomenon.
My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.
They always want me to play myself and that’s a big snooze.
We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.
I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.
I’m tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.
But we’re very much an American band and that’s that. I think that’s part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it’s wallpaper to them, it’s elevator music, it’s just the thing that’s playing in the background that helps them through their day.
If I’m tired of me, I’m sure the public is as well.
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.
There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
If you disagree with me, fine! Because that’s the great thing about America, we can disagree!
Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don’t really care what’s playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it’s easy to drive to or it’s easy to sing along to or whatever.
I’m not homosexual, I’m not hetrosexual, I’m just sexual.
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.
