David Berman Quotes

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David Berman

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 4, 1967

People younger than me trust me. People my age do not. They think I'm up to something. And I've often felt this.

David Berman

Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.

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I've never been a big movie person, but I used to watch movies regularly in my life, and sometime in the '90s I just stopped. I certainly never was an educated moviegover.

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I made records for 20 years, I lived off it. But people would say I made so many mistakes, I did so many things you're not supposed to do. I had a band name nobody could say. I didn't play live. I never practiced, I never got better at my instrument.

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I have always had a blank spot where my regret is supposed to be.

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A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion, in the same way that Americans get turned off Christianity by people like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson.

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I have this Martin electric/acoustic that's made of black formica. Really cool.

David Berman

When you can't see you become very timid about space and moving. You become less aggressive and less tenacious. Lots of things that shouldn't be affected by vision really are. And you don't even know what they are until they become unstuck.

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The overlap between Pavement's fan base and people who liked Silver Jews was total. In my mind, even a local band with 20 fans had more unqualified support.

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Ever since I was a little kid, I've always felt un-trusted.

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When art is about craftsmanship, then guys like me don't make it as artists.

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My faith was undermined by the same sort of things that make people skeptics of religion in general. Part of it was, there was no real place for me in Judaism. Maybe if there was I would've hung in there, but I was attracted to the social-justice aspects of Judaism, and I was attracted to the prophets.

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I don't have room in my mind to think about musical equipment.

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I'm not the type to demand affirmation or to worry that I'll be forgotten. I'm more the type to dare the world to forget me.

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Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little town and the glitzy big one shaped me for sure.

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All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

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Intellectuals and creative people, once they start talking about God they get put into this other category: 'I don't go to people's music like that to understand my life.'

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I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just can't make it past ten minutes of anything.

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My great grandfather was the last practicing Jew in my family. He died in 1982.

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There are enough really good love songs and I don't even know if I could write one if I tried.

David Berman