Jeffrey Lewis Quotes

• It's all easier said than done, and it isn't even easy to say.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Done, Easy, Easier

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• I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Voice, People, Fancy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something worth presenting because I can't rely on any kind of virtuosity to dazzle people with.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  People, Singing, Lucky

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing - that's the reason something like that often has more impact on society.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Impact, People, Missing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Inspiration, Rap

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Art, Thinking, Benefits

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When somebody asks me "What are your comic books about?" or "What are your songs about?" there is no answer and I feel like an idiot not having an answer, like I don't know what I am making. I really do know what I'm making, but it's not one thing, it's everything I like, and I see no reason to leave out any of that.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Book, Answers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Artist, Thinking, Creative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Interesting, Creative, Musical

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Art, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The funny thing is that some reviews are published in magazines and websites that are seen by millions of people, and other reviews are in very small publications or less popular websites, and you just have to be lucky to have the good reviews land in places where more people see them, and bad reviews land in places where they will be less seen.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Land, Funny Things, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What can you think when one review says "this album is brilliant, and all the songs flow into the utmost brilliant song 'The Upside-Down Cross'" then another review says "this album is brilliant, except for that horrible and pointless song 'The Upside-Down Cross'," and another review will say "Jeffrey really sounds confident and relaxed on this new album", the next reviewer says "Jeffrey sounds more depressed and awful than ever" - these totally contrasting reviews happen all the time!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Thinking, Awful

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Trying, Entertainment, Fit

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Educational, Goal, Enlightening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel Johnston. There are sometimes people who are great at both the technique and the creativity, the two sides of the coin, maybe Jimi Hendrix.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Creativity, Player, Two Sides

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I sell a complete package... a life style that's in harmony with and exemplified by the exterior and interior living space. I'm obsessive about the way I live and work, so when it comes to renovating, I believe in finding the true integrity of a house, then breathing life back into it in a way that connects with a certain type of buyer.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Integrity, Believe, Breathing

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• In the past, Koreans have mostly copied other countries' engines, and so there's been kind of a problem with quality and a real limit on what they could do with that.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Real, Past, Quality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Art, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• About Jimi Hendrix - although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and this makes his music much better than if he was just a technical player and singer.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Player, Uber, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Art, Quality, Mesmerizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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