In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.

Devendra Banhart

Categorized in : People Giving Trying

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

Devendra Banhart

people

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

Devendra Banhart

waiting mistake

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

Devendra Banhart

successful people art

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

Devendra Banhart

fire hands people

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

Devendra Banhart

has-beens comfort trying

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

Devendra Banhart

mystery doe world

We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

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valuable purpose age

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

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dancing real time

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

Devendra Banhart

good-art ifs art

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

Devendra Banhart

feminist song thinking

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.

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crow leaving grieving

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

Devendra Banhart

love-you song book

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

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heard today war

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

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profound

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.

Devendra Banhart

video real song

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

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geek nerd records

I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have.

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littles boys kids

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."

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eye feet writing

I've always noticed talking about lyrics is like talking about a duality. It's like a Gemini time every time I talk about one line. Because each line, of course, means different things to different people, millions of interpretations. With me, I always see two sides. I just see things split into two.

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different mean people

If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life. It's a very beautiful thing and a very real thing but it's not something to not take seriously and it's not something to take seriously.

Devendra Banhart

sensitivity real beautiful