Michael Stipe Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.”

“They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.”

“There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.”

“When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.”

“Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.”

“So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.”

“So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.”

“We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.”

“But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.”

“I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.”