Devendra Banhart Quotes

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Devendra Banhart

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 30, 1981

R. Kelly is my favorite singer.

Devendra Banhart

At 15 I discovered girls and '90s ska.

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I want to say that Beck is incredible. He is an art machine.

Devendra Banhart

I look at making records like you make a dish. A culinary experience. The way you throw in a tambourine, it's like spices or herbs. The main part of the song is the stock.

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A soul singer is always singing to their crowd. They're always singing about their woes to you. And I really appreciate that when a singer is making you feel... when they're directing it at me. When they're including me.

Devendra Banhart

Let's take fashion seriously, but not ourselves so seriously. Or reverse that, maybe don't take fashion so seriously, but take yourself seriously. Actually, don't take yourself seriously, that's for sure. So, yeah, take fashion seriously, just not yourself.

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Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, the ubiquitous music is salsa, cumbia, merengue, a little bit of samba.

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John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot of people even know that he does visual art.

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Venezuela is incredible, but Caracas? Oh God, I hate it. The sidewalks get smaller every time I go back.

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Caracas was a crazy place in the early Nineties. For instance, when I was 11 years old, I pierced my ear. No big deal, right? But everyone was so scandalised that they shut down the school.

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I believe we are all dual beings. Some cultures actually believe we have two souls.

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Canada has really grown and grown as this unexplored and very mysterious and exotic place to me.

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Personally speaking, Canada is becoming more and more beguiling and mysterious and I feel as though I really need to explore it.

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Coming to Canada, I'd really like to see Sasquatch.

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I guess I don't want everyone to know what I'm doing every second.

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My interested in Brazilian music stemmed from wanting to find a musical identity other than the salsa and meringue that I was inundated with in Venezuela as a child.

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I've always said that musicians are the comics of my generations and comedians are the politicians of my generation.

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People love to take sides, but it's not effective. It's not really an effective way of communicating something, because you're either already part of the side or you're going to feel attacked and get defensive.

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I was born with a beard. We're quite hairy down in Latin America. We don't have to use sponges when we wash dishes. We just use our baby beards.

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I love 'Star Wars.'

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