Devendra Banhart Quotes

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Devendra Banhart

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 30, 1981

Well, love is a difficult thing to hold on to. It's a slippery little beast. It will hold you and then it will elude you at any moment.

Devendra Banhart

I don't ever think of myself as a dark person or a ruined person in any way. I just feel happy to be alive, and to be able to love.

Devendra Banhart

I'm very lucky my parents were into different kinds of music.

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I've always lived in small places.

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With music there's so many limbs and facets. Video and touring and merchandise and all those little things require attention. They're artist things but I tend to joke around too much with those things.

Devendra Banhart

I come from a school of artists, the Mission School in San Francisco, and there are a lot of artists I look up to.

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One not-to-be-mentioned major said they would sign me if I worked with a team of songwriters to help me finish songs, ha! Of course, in hindsight, I should've done it just to see what that would have been like.

Devendra Banhart

I've been doing visual stuff for as long as I've been making records; in fact, for longer.

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I like clothes. I really do. I like going through colors, in a way. I go, 'Greens, man. Greens. Oh, yellow. This yellow feels good.' So it shapes your psyche in a way. But I don't think about it too much, even though I'm interested in it.

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Green is one of my favorite colors.

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I sometimes feel like I should be in the hotel business.

Devendra Banhart

The real hippie is trying to create something inclusive, something holistic, something loving and healthy which isn't in perpetual conflict with authority and actually knows that the only way to disarm the entire game is to step aside and not take any sides.

Devendra Banhart

It's embarrassing to quote Gandhi or something, but being the change you want to see in the world is pretty powerful.

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The first paid show was in Los Angeles at an art opening and I was paid maybe, I don't know, twenty five bucks?

Devendra Banhart

Something I practice everyday is Tonglin. It's Tibetan for taking and receiving.

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I practice Rasayana Buddhism.

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I love Meredith Monk, and with Instagram, I get a chance to see if she has a cat, and what's she reading.

Devendra Banhart

I was born in Texas, you know. I was born in Houston.

Devendra Banhart

Of all my childhood books, 'The Giving Tree and Hope for the Flowers' really did change my early world, but after reading 'Momo' in my 30s, I thought, Ahhhhhh, this is the one book I wish I had read as a kid! Then reread at every subsequent chapter of my life.

Devendra Banhart