Devendra Banhart Mind-Blowing Quotes | Status Free Download
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At some point in your life, if you live in Venezuela, you come across or own a cuatro. Either at school, either at camp, either at a friend's house, at a birthday or Christmas or bar mitzvah, you end up with a cuatro. It's like a must.
— Devendra Banhart
I might have some delusions of grandeur.
— Devendra Banhart
Well I am a Gemini.
— Devendra Banhart
In the next life what would my career be? Oh, easy. Dried persimmon dealer.
— Devendra Banhart
For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.
— Devendra Banhart
I believe we are all dual beings. Some cultures actually believe we have two souls.
— Devendra Banhart
I sit around and try to play along to certain songs that I really love. It helps you explore new territory.
— Devendra Banhart
R. Kelly is my favorite singer.
— Devendra Banhart
I meditate.' That's like saying 'I eat.' Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.
— Devendra Banhart
This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.
— Devendra Banhart
I want to do a record with Adam Green of all German schlager songs.
— Devendra Banhart
I can't tell you how many times I've had a friend tell me, in this tender and discreet voice, 'It's just you and me bro, and I want to tell you the truth: make a record of you and an acoustic guitar. Please. That's what everybody actually likes.' That's so funny to me.
— Devendra Banhart
In the past, I had this open-door policy where everyone was invited. And that was awesome, but you end up releasing songs that you don't really like and justifying it in your head.
— Devendra Banhart
I like California a lot. There's a lot of space, but it's actually the most populated place in the nation.
— Devendra Banhart
Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it.
— Devendra Banhart
I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.
— Devendra Banhart
I sometimes think a movement as rich and wild and incredible as Tropicalismo wouldn't have survived without incredibly catchy music.
— Devendra Banhart
As an adolescent I saw the Specials at the Glass House in Pomona, and that was life changing. I dressed the part - except not well, because it was a thrift suit. I looked more like David Byrne than a rudeboy; I still have a hard time finding suits that fit me. But I had my braces and I had my Docs. It was unbelievable.
— Devendra Banhart
I aspire to feel like a child, how about that!
— Devendra Banhart
I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.
— Devendra Banhart
I collect head shots from bands.
— Devendra Banhart
I'm just trying to make rent and do my work.
— Devendra Banhart
Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.
— Devendra Banhart
I love Oasis.
— Devendra Banhart
The only real moment is now.
— Devendra Banhart
Am I a pro-cult person? In no way!
— Devendra Banhart
Real hippies don't like me at all. They can smell a real hippy.
— Devendra Banhart
We all have our vices, you know. One of my vices is ice cream.
— Devendra Banhart
I can see my songs in a movie as long as it's a movie no one will watch.
— Devendra Banhart
I support things that are very close to my heart: mostly LGBTQ rights.
— Devendra Banhart
I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.
— Devendra Banhart
I live in a total bubble where I assume everyone is super-liberal and democratic.
— Devendra Banhart
No one's fearless. We're all full of fear. But can your fear guide you or lean into it, embrace it.
— Devendra Banhart
I've always thought it'd be nice to be seaweed, kind of just floating about.
— Devendra Banhart
If you're ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you're good to go.
— Devendra Banhart
Leigh Bowery is a legend. Everybody loves Leigh Bowery. Everybody should love Leigh Bowery.
— Devendra Banhart
I practice Rasayana Buddhism.
— Devendra Banhart
I do have very small handwriting.
— Devendra Banhart
I was just a huge fan of Blur, Suede, Elastica and Pulp, of course, even Menswear and Ocean Colour Scene.
— Devendra Banhart
My gadabout days are over.
— Devendra Banhart
Grizzly Bear's 'Knife' is one of the best videos of all time - everything Encyclopedia Pictura has done is really incredible.
— Devendra Banhart
I try to listen to as much as possible. I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many different musicians, and I need to learn.
— Devendra Banhart
As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: 'Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B.'
— Devendra Banhart
When the Internet came along, the first thing I did was look up Wu-Tang so I could print out their symbol and glue it onto my skateboard.
— Devendra Banhart
Generally, I can't really do much without music playing - even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.
— Devendra Banhart
I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.
— Devendra Banhart
It's all about sensitivity. If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life.
— Devendra Banhart
I grew up around so much new agey stuff. Part of me takes it lightly because I'm so used to it. It was my parents. It wasn't some path I discovered and want to share with people. It's just been a very natural part of my life. There's humor to it and there's seriousness to it, too.
— Devendra Banhart
I know that there are energies that vibrate frequencies that are so subtle you could say that they exist in a different territory or realm or sphere, and people mistake these frequencies for ghosts.
— Devendra Banhart
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.
— Devendra Banhart
I'm deeply conservative and I'm profoundly boring.
— Devendra Banhart
I love almost every Britpop band.
— Devendra Banhart
When anyone dies, it's sad.
— Devendra Banhart
Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.
— Devendra Banhart
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.
— Devendra Banhart
Pay attention to your breathing.
— Devendra Banhart
It's very powerful to shut down your computer and escape into the real world.
— Devendra Banhart
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.
— Devendra Banhart
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.
— Devendra Banhart
Whether I'm on a major or an indie, I don't think this is important, but at the same time I do.
— Devendra Banhart
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