Devendra Banhart Quotes

Now everybody knows about this thing that's my secret. It was my thing, the music I turned to when I was alone and needed it. It's what helps me get through these times. It's just between me and music, and now it's been shared with the world.

Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.

Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. 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.

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

There are plenty of things in vaults that didn't sell in its time. So much stuff. But slowly these companies start to get a hint that these things have some value.

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

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."

There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.

I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

Now if I lived in my land, which I do, if I lived in Iceland, if I lived in Greensland I'd still have Chinese children, but out of my ears my little grey baby hears.

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.