Devendra Banhart Quotes

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Devendra Banhart

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 30, 1981

As I get older, there's this new realisation and it's almost like a relief, and that is that I can never be who I once was, but only who I want to become.

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I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

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I'm deeply conservative and I'm profoundly boring.

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When anyone dies, it's sad.

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I'm just trying to make rent and do my work.

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Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.

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Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.

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My number-one hero in terms of interdisciplinary art is Laurie Anderson, but I've always admired anyone who can think way beyond any one medium.

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I love Oasis.

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Pay attention to your breathing.

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The only real moment is now.

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Am I a pro-cult person? In no way!

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I don't even know what a hippy is. I mean, hippy is an evolution of the Sixties movement. A time when people were trying to make a difference, trying to write songs that were political. People grow old. The hippy camp kind of breaks off into different sects.

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We all have our vices, you know. One of my vices is ice cream.

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I don't think I'm getting better, quote unquote, as a singer or guitar player. But I'm more comfortable in this particular space. I get better at being a bad singer, so to speak.

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I can see my songs in a movie as long as it's a movie no one will watch.

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Whether I'm on a major or an indie, I don't think this is important, but at the same time I do.

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I support things that are very close to my heart: mostly LGBTQ rights.

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I live in a total bubble where I assume everyone is super-liberal and democratic.

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Dad had four world records, and they happened to be Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Farka Toure. I tried singing like these people, and it didn't work.

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