I was never super comfortable playing music in front of people anyway. Now I enjoy it, but it wasn't the easiest thing to get past. Mark Lanegan More Quotes by Mark Lanegan More Quotes From Mark Lanegan I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life. Mark Lanegan publicitymusicianlife It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it. Mark Lanegan musicnamesinspirational If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick. Mark Lanegan drunksicktears You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier. Mark Lanegan peoplewaymoving The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing. Mark Lanegan judgingdoepeople Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to. Mark Lanegan sixfigureswant I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person. Mark Lanegan flawedpersons When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. Mark Lanegan playmeanpeople I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not. Mark Lanegan finding-yourselfrolesthinking I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere. Mark Lanegan guitarlightbeautiful I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it. Mark Lanegan wellsheardpast There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child. Mark Lanegan mysterylittleschildren Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit. Mark Lanegan singingstuffquiet I think a myth is created from truth. Mark Lanegan myththinking I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time. Mark Lanegan suicidaltough-timestough The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me. Mark Lanegan differentplaypeople You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours. Mark Lanegan takenplaythinking You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. Mark Lanegan riskrunningfall Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It keeps me alive. When I'm doing something alone, that is mine, I know how it is. But when I'm working with someone else, I also see the view from the other, and usually learn something new, try something different. This is very important to my happiness. Mark Lanegan importantpeopleinteresting The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business. Mark Lanegan behind-youkindyears
