Quotes About Authenticity

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

I always try to write from a genuine standpoint.

I like to make music from a personal standpoint, and the music that feels good to me, and when the music becomes big, it's even better because it's an even more organic feeling than when you, like, tried to make the hit record.

One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.

I appreciate someone who stands out and stands up for what he believes in, because that's what I'm trying to do.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

It's important to me that my music stands out. 'Taki Taki' doesn't sound like anything else out there, and it's hard to do that when you are on the road all the time, but it's really important to me that how people feel about my work. It was the same with 'Magenta Riddim.'

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

I just want to be someone who stands up for being herself.

I think it's important to remain true to myself, but ultimately the Miami Heat and what it stands for is part of me. It's part of my fabric.

If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

Katya Zamolodchikova

There's something so naked about being on stage as a musician. I think about that even with standup comedy or something - like, 'This is it, this is what I got.'

Hopefully standup will become special again.

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.