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Mark Lanegan, born on November 25, 1964, is a renowned musician from the United States. His musical career began in the 1990s, known for his distinctive voice and profound lyrics. Lanegan's musical style blends elements of rock, folk, and experimental music, winning him the admiration of fans.

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Famous Mark Lanegan Quotes

“The dysfunctional home life I enjoyed made me place me reliance strictly on myself and nobody else, I trusted no one and no one should have trusted me either, I was only in it for yours truly and stood directly in the centre of the world, the only wolf in the pack.”

Trust Isolation Mistrust

Book:Devil in a Coma

Source: Devil in a Coma

“I've never gone to bed with any monsters, I only woke up with a few dozen or so.”

Desire Lust The Day After

Book:Devil in a Coma

Source: Devil in a Coma

“The harsh injustice of ageing and the helplessness of infirmity was more than I could take. I swore I would die before I ended up like that.”

Dying Old Age Ageing

Book:Devil in a Coma

Source: Devil in a Coma

“Each and every time I walked out into the dark, I only ever came part of the way back.”

Death Dying Near Death Experiences

Book:Devil in a Coma

Source: Devil in a Coma

“More and more this was reminiscent of an unending stretch in country jail that I couldn't shake, with my trial date being intentionally undetermined, constantly moved around just to keep me inside. It felt like the longer I was kept here the worse I got, not the other way around.”

Waiting Illness Uncertainty Covid 19

Book:Devil in a Coma

Source: Devil in a Coma

“Music was no longer my friend but I left my headphones on round the clock just to keep the outside noise out of my head.”

Music Noise Disconnected

Book:Devil in a Coma

Source: Devil in a Coma

“My interest in music was non-existent. I never put on a record or picked up a guitar or sat at the keyboard and didn't care if I ever did again.”

Music Illness Noise Disconnection Disinterest

Book:Devil in a Coma

Source: Devil in a Coma

“I've never enjoyed being fully present, a muted reality has been the landscape I've preferred and mainly inhabited forever. Sure, feeling is good, but not too much, and if someone is able to get away with suffering devastating loss, massive regret, heartache, physical agony, mental instability, isolation, humiliation, abuse, incarceration, depression, tragedy etc. with a blanket of chemical protection, then who can say it's wrong?”

Addiction Numb Numbness Muted

Book:Devil in a Coma

Source: Devil in a Coma

“I turn back to the page to obsessively invent still more damaged and heroic versions of myself before the fire dies out or the well runs dry, constructing imaginary worlds.”

Writing Writing Life Writing Quote

Book:Devil in a Coma

Source: Devil in a Coma

“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.”

People Way Moving Felt Picks All Things Elitist

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“I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time.”

People Thinking Together Moving Young Guy Goal Common Groups Like You Exciting Get Together Common Goal

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“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.”

Years Kind Behinds Bigger Hopefully Behind You

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“The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.”

People Different Play Ability Fascinating Different Peoples

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“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.”

People Mean Play Lasts Chance One Thing Hook Hook Up

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“I think a myth is created from truth.”

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“There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.”

Children Littles Film Left Mystery

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“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.”

Ifs Wells Persons Past Heard

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“I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.”

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“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.”

People Thinking Way Want Feels Two Play Hours Half Watches Taken My Way Charging Provoked

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“I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.”

Life Has Beens Musician Arena Publicity Singer Songwriters Provocative

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“I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.”

Writing Used My Own Groups Fans Albums Album Covers

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“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.”

Thinking Roles Masters Finding Yourself Tenacity

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“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.”

Light Beautiful Voice Type Guitar Instrumentation Beautiful Voice

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“The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.”

Ends Player Harder Absence Faster Range Bass Bass Players

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“Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.”

Want Figures Six Honestly

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“You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.”

Firsts Made Running Faces Fall Individual Risk Please Music Is Pursuit Your Face Please Yourself

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“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.”

People Feels Looks Doe Pleasure Judging

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“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.”

People Inspirational Needs Soul Names Understanding Music Musician Music Is Singer Songwriters Identifying Music Soul Soulless

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“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.”

People Trying Important Different Interesting Something New

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“Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.”

Stuff Quiet Singing Loud

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“I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.”

Tough Suicidal Tough Times

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“If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.”

Ifs Tears Sick Drunk Liquor

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About the Author

Born: November 25, 1964
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 32

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