David Berman Quotes

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David Berman

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 4, 1967

I guess on all Silver Jews records, it's extremely male-centric.

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I hear luxury brand names, I cringe.

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Bobby Braddock is great.

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Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying by the mumbles and rhythms.

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It must be very strange to live in the world of Willie Nelson or Bruce Springsteen or Pearl Jam. I don't know what kind of handle they have on their own loss of talent.

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In my whole life, I've had maybe 10 people who have told me how much my music means to them.

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I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the tradition of the young great writers of the '60s and '70s, but it hasn't turned out that way, or at least there are no other writers around that I look at and think: 'Wow, I'm outclassed, I need to get out of this business.'

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I'm not convinced I have fans.

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I can't imagine putting my name on a t-shirt. For someone to wear my name? Me? It's ridiculous.

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The world of commerce is a kind of a purgatory itself.

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Nashville only thrives when talented people from out of town move here from somewhere else.

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Obviously there was the idea that we could sell more records if we played live, but I guess I didn't care enough to sell more records to do that.

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Some nights I'm funny with the between-song commentary, some nights I'm not. I have no control over this. I pace the stage a lot and struggle with the mic stand in a ridiculous way.

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I am not only neither Christian nor Jewish, but said to be in between, and I feel the same way about being from the South and being from the North. I write with my left hand but I throw a ball with my right hand.

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I've never been from a certain group. I've always reserved a space for myself where I'm unattached to any group, but the part of Judaism that I really take away, that means something to me, is the part about community.

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I don't think any songwriter who comes up through playing clubs can really claim to have independently developed their art. All along the way so much information is coming, the writer inside the performer unconsciously reacts to all of that. By the time they get to be thirty, the writer is gone.

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I don't have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, and I do feel like I'm on the other side of my career of being a Lothario.

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For a long time, I've struggled very, very much with what people call treatment-resistant depression.

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Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't try to do what he couldn't. I couldn't rock out harder than everybody, or overpower people with mastery like Jack White of the White Stripes, so why try? That's why I've always worked harder on words.

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