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I read Henry Miller's 'Nexus,' 'Sexus' and 'Plexus' the summer after I graduated from college. It cemented my decision to spurn any and all careers.
— David Berman
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.'
— David Berman
Silver Jews was always a coolection of old friends. Uncoolection.
— David Berman
Mostly i write on an unplugged Mustang or a Baby Taylor.
— David Berman
I heard Springsteen was an unhappy person. I don't know, I haven't read his biography. But a lot of people in my field should be a lot more unhappy than they are.
— David Berman
It's a Gen X thing to be okay with going unnoticed or unrated or untouched. To be free from strangers' expectations, or anger. People got angry at me when I stopped making music because it seemed I was devaluing everything.
— David Berman
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.
— David Berman
The world of commerce is a kind of a purgatory itself.
— David Berman
Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.
— David Berman
For a long time, I've struggled very, very much with what people call treatment-resistant depression.
— David Berman
My only advice would be to someone right now, is if you're in a position in your life where you need to make a change, this is the best time.
— David Berman
I trust myself.
— David Berman
If critics were harder on the musicians that they love, there would be better songs. But as they grow older and they lose their talent, critics refuse to let them know that and protect them, and they get to the point where they put out music that just isn't up to the levels where they've already been.
— David Berman
I don't have time for language poetry anymore. I don't want to throw people off anymore.
— David Berman
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.
— David Berman
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.
— David Berman
I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn't write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never learned to play others songs. I learned to play my own songs while I was learning how to make them better.
— David Berman
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the last fifty maybe just going back and forth on a single line or word selection.
— David Berman
Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one.
— David Berman
If I believed in fate I'd be very curious why I picked the name Silver Jews.
— David Berman
You don't meet too many actors in Nashville.
— David Berman
When art is about craftsmanship, then guys like me don't make it as artists.
— David Berman
Bobby Braddock is great.
— David Berman
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.
— David Berman
All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe lyrics don't matter.
— David Berman
I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians.
— David Berman
In my whole life, I've had maybe 10 people who have told me how much my music means to them.
— David Berman
Nashville only thrives when talented people from out of town move here from somewhere else.
— David Berman
I made records for 20 years, I lived off it. But people would say I made so many mistakes, I did so many things you're not supposed to do. I had a band name nobody could say. I didn't play live. I never practiced, I never got better at my instrument.
— David Berman
I'm not a good singer.
— David Berman
I'm not the type to demand affirmation or to worry that I'll be forgotten. I'm more the type to dare the world to forget me.
— David Berman
My faith was undermined by the same sort of things that make people skeptics of religion in general. Part of it was, there was no real place for me in Judaism. Maybe if there was I would've hung in there, but I was attracted to the social-justice aspects of Judaism, and I was attracted to the prophets.
— David Berman
I've had to stop going to the nearest grocery store that seems to play Shania Twain's 'Forever and For Always' whenever I'm there. It's hard to shop for frozen entrees through cold-air blasted tears. Feels good on a flushed face though.
— David Berman
The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies. It's not that they fail because they're boring, but because they overreach.
— David Berman
My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and the one thing I can do is write narratives and build characters. I can do that.
— David Berman
I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.
— David Berman
My father is a despicable man.
— David Berman
I imagine that I'm less famous than the 15th ranked bowler in the world.
— David Berman
I'm not convinced I have fans.
— David Berman
I have this Martin electric/acoustic that's made of black formica. Really cool.
— David Berman
Natalie Maines has a voice for the centuries.
— David Berman
I always loved bands with mystique.
— David Berman
I grew up the son of a businessman. And I didn't get into music to be a businessman.
— David Berman
I can't imagine putting my name on a t-shirt. For someone to wear my name? Me? It's ridiculous.
— David Berman
Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes naturally to me. A lot of my music is like that.
— David Berman
In the beginning, it was meant to be like a faceless art piece. Then I did the first record and it received enough notice to satisfy my needs. I questioned the procedure out of fear. The Silver Jews was never meant to be recreated live.
— David Berman
I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37.
— David Berman
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.
— David Berman
I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art is supposed to do, mixing it up with people.
— David Berman
Intellectuals and creative people, once they start talking about God they get put into this other category: 'I don't go to people's music like that to understand my life.'
— David Berman
I have bad vision, but it's not distorted. It's low power!
— David Berman
I don't have room in my mind to think about musical equipment.
— David Berman
Lyrically, country music is the most satisfying music for me.
— David Berman
Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'
— David Berman
When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in a strange central Ohio town of 22,000, Wooster. When it looked like I was growing up to be a wimp I was forced to live with my father, which I did not want to do.
— David Berman
I was not born to be the center of attention in a crowded room.
— David Berman
The greatest thing about Nashville is that it's welcoming.
— David Berman
I take pride in the fact that I can walk away from things. My willingness to walk away has protected me, I realize that now. Being able to walk away from sessions, from poetry, from dreams of being a poetry professor.
— David Berman
All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.
— David Berman
I don't have religion or culture. I don't have anything I can believe in when I'm really scared. When I play the songs, I feel the fear disappear.
— David Berman
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