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Devendra Banhart, born on May 30, 1981, is a talented singer-songwriter from Venezuela. His music style blends folk, world music, and experimental elements, and he is known for his unique voice and creative talent in the music industry.

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

Knows Stills War Today Heard

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

Littles Kids Boys Plenty Little Kid Little Boys

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“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.”

Ifs Children Littles Stills Land Baby Ears Chinese Grey Iceland

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“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.”

Wells Leaving Wounds Grieving Tunes Crow Bleeding Cripples

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

Trying Has Beens Comfort Perpetual Discomfort

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“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.”

People Ifs Hands Fire

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“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.”

Thinking Should Political Song Five Percent Feminist Medieval Miscellaneous

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“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."”

People Writing Said Eye Feet Compare Description Surreal

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

Writing Book Wanted Song Happened Love You Direct

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“I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.”

Thinking Want Remember Voice Technology Records Guitar Albums Available Translate Faust

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“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. I sit around and try to play along to certain songs that I really love. It helps you explore new territory. I don't think I listen to enough.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Writing Trying Different Enough Play Helping Certain Song Musician Inspired Territory New Territory Very Inspired

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“When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.”

Persons Return Vote California Voting Texas Mexico Propositions Pencils

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“I like California a lot. There's a lot of space, but it's actually the most populated place in the nation.”

Nations Space California

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“I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.”

Important Ocean Important Things Connected Things To Do Swim

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“I find Mexico exciting to visit, but I think [it] is looked down upon. Mexico is not a very respected place, unless you're Mexican, and even then it's something of a love/hate relationship.”

Thinking Hate Exciting Mexico Mexican Find Me Love Hate Love Hate Relationship Love And Hate Relationship

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“Within America, there are extremely different place. I'm not saying it's one homogenous color. It's obviously an incredible place. There's no other place like it, and it's incredibly diverse.”

Different America Color Incredibles Diverse Different Place

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“Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.”

People Different Speak Language Structure Bones Different Languages

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“"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.”

Thinking Variety Mediation

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

Kind Moments House Environment Studios

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

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“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.”

Long Art Lists Selling Selling Out

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

Ifs Art Good Art

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“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.”

People Want Art Sometimes Artist Successful Being Successful Survived Really Great Great Art Best Artist

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“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.”

People Stills Courses Found Effort Records Amount Internet

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

Can Do Records Best Things Nerd Geek

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“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.”

Values Stuff Company Sells Plenty Hints Vaults

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“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.”

Knows World Helping Secret Needed Help Me

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

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

Thinking Way Huge Impact Video Listening To Music

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“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.”

Real Song Music Is Incredibles Video Realms Real Power

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

World Doe Mystery Fit

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“I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.”

Wanted Moving Cities New York New York City Velvet Velvet Underground

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“The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.”

World New York Listening Driving Coast Highways Pacific Best Times Velvet Velvet Underground

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“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.”

People Mean Different Duality One Line

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“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.”

Age Purpose Valuable

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“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.”

People World Giving Trying Sometimes Failing Idiot Buddy Disappoint Killing Yourself Appease

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“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.”

Real Beautiful Mysticism Beautiful Things Sensitivity Very Beautiful

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“I hate having my photograph taken and I try to keep that in mind when I'm photographing other people. But the best photos that I've taken are the ones when people have forgotten that I'm there. If I'm in a recording studio with a musician, for example, maybe I'm not photographing them in the middle of a take but I can just get that stolen moment of them resting and they glance over to me.”

People Trying Mind Moments Hate Taken Musician I Hate Photograph Forgotten

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“When real work happens and that's when real art happens.”

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“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”

Littles I Can Real Shows Time Dancing Teeth Good Times Bites

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

Waiting Mistake

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About the Author

Born: May 30, 1981
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 41

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