Top 55 Weyes Blood Quotes

I tend to panic and fear on a low-grade level every day, but when something really disastrous happens, I kick into super high gear; a kind of transcendent, save-everybody mind-set.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can’t fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

There’s a lot of artists out there who are pretty big but don’t write their songs, they just have a lifestyle brand. These are all things that I think are a great enemy to music.

I’ve always tried to create music the way Kubrick makes film, just kind of mimicking consciousness. He has a way of mimicking this greater power.

I think Baltimore is a wonderful artistic community with a lot of great musicians. It’s kind of like a little secret for musicians.

I always had a lot of empathy for the deep outcast weirdos in school. I was kind of like the more sociable weirdo, but I was always talking to the real weird ones.

Everybody is their own galaxy, their own separate entity.

Seven Words’ is a wanderer’s tale, a well-worn subgenre in the tradition of farewell songs. The tune itself is trying to evoke the familiar act of leaving somebody in order to save them, or continue seeking.

My parents are musicians. I was listening to the radio and recording songs off the radio on cassette tapes and playing guitars and pianos. Just emotionally responding to music from a very young age.

On ‘Cardamom,’ I had pretty much total control on all of the musical stuff, but I asked a friend of mine to take the picture for the cover, and I asked a friend of mine to draw the back.

I’ve always been on the periphery.

Everybody is constantly putting themselves under a microscope in terms of their productivity and their financial success and this whole idea of ‘Picture Me Better,’ like picture me, you know, who I’m supposed to be versus, you know, just accepting who we all are.

Enya is a very matriarchal musical force. Her music is very feminine and she layers her voice a lot. It leaks into my music secretly on the side. There’s a lot of lush layers of my voice hiding in the cracks.

I want to help people and change the world.

I don’t wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

We haven’t evolved as loners, we need each other. It’s easy to believe in the illusion of technology bringing us closer together. But if you were to protest that and say, ‘I’m not going to use a smartphone, I’m not going to use email, I’m not going to use social media,’ it’s like you’re no longer a part of humanity.

I feel just as passionately about experimental electronic music as I do about folk music.

In my mind, my music feels so big, a true production.

Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It’s easy to idolize the past, before those things were prevalent.

What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It’s safe to say that they have failed us, but I can’t help it… I love Movies.

R. Murray Shcafer is a Canadian composer with a twist. Aside from writing incredibly ethereal music, he is also an acousitc ecologist, fighting for the sonic space on this planet to be beautiful – a rare and shamefully underrated cause.

I like to keep things deceptively simple, but hard-hitting. You can reduce everything to the perfect, essential harmony. It’s what used to be done with earlier music like Gregorian chants.

I love touring; if it were up to me I’d be touring all the time.

I like baroque things.

There’s nothing wrong with the feminine, there’s nothing wrong with being vulnerable.

I’m grateful that I didn’t get thrown into the limelight at 19-years-old.

I aspire to write like Robert Wyatt. I take a lot of inspiration from the way he writes.

I’ve always had gender confusion. I had two older brothers, and I’ve been predominantly male influenced. I really always looked up to my dad, really always looked up to my brothers… I had a lot of male friends growing up. It didn’t help that in my town, where I lived, there were no female musicians.

I do sometimes feel like I function within an echo chamber and I’m just kind of preaching to the choir.

I can’t stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

My dad was a real working musician in the late ’70s and early ’80s. He had a band that was signed to Elektra/Asylum and they would perform at like Madame Wong’s and Whiskey A Go Go all the time.

I was born in L.A. In Santa Monica, actually.

I was an alto and was in a lot of choirs growing up.

In our culture the way women have been represented in American film had a pretty big impact on my self-esteem and I’m sure it did on a lot of other girls. I think they have a greater psychological impact that anybody’s willing to talk about.

Eyeliner is a lifelong thing. You’ll never get it perfect.

I have a lot of respect for people who really work on their life – they’ve got this great apartment and a good personality, they write the thank-you cards and bake birthday cakes. That’s who I wish I was. When I see people cultivate their own life like that, I admire it.

As we become more codependent with technology, it’s not necessarily based on our desire for the technology but our desire for interconnectivity and wanting to stay connected, which is a natural human instinct. The technology itself is kind of emotionally manipulative.

If you’re an evil company who’s casting minorities to be in your commercial to get the politically correct card, it’s like putting a band-aid over a bigger problem. But I think it’s an incredible start.

I really like a lot of different music, and it’s taken a while to make them all work together as a unit.

The only outlet in mainstream culture for classical and more experimental music to be heard is through movie soundtracks, and they’re such a wonderful display of emotion. I think the guy that did that best is Stanley Kubrick, working with Wendy Carlos who is an electronic composer.

I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.

I think all human beings have a propensity to believe in things, and to have hope, and I think as a child especially you have a lot of hope and you believe in a lot of things, and your bedroom is a safe space and an imaginative space where you can escape and go off into wherever you want.

Water represents to me, the beginnings of life, it is where we come from in our most primordial sense. It relates to some of our deepest subconscious thinking – it’s a force we can’t really see or understand, we just get glimpses of. But it’s a part of us all.

As a teenager, I really loved Catherine Ribeiro – extremely powerful, wild, improvisatory voice. I loved old psych-rock bands, and Michael Hurley, and Harry Nilsson. And then later on I discovered the famous European singer Demis Roussos, who used to be in Aphrodite’s Child.

A lot of church music really inspired me. A lot of ancient music that’s made for God. If you get really into the history of music, inevitably you’re going to have to get into sacred religious music.

Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it’s all surrealism. It’s all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor – it all just overlaps.

I’m not a huge, popular artist, but I feel like one when I’m in the studio. But it’s never taking away from the music. I’m just making a bigger space for myself.

I wanted to show people that there’s nothing wrong with trying to make something sacred.

I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that’s how reality always is – it’s this duality of being both hopeless and also full of hope.

I love essential oils – there’s one for every problem. It’s kind of like nature’s answers for what to put on your skin. I had acne when I was a teenager, and I did a pretty intense tea tree thing. You dilute it in a base oil, like carrot seed oil, which is good because it gives your face a little glow.

I feel like I was born to make music.

I am a ham, I like to joke around.

It took me a while to warm up to smartphones. I just reached a point where I was like, ‘If I continue to be a luddite, I’m just going to fall so far behind and become really bitter.’

I wanted to be a comedian long before I wanted to be a musician, for sure.

We all need a little something to believe in.