"Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting."
― Michael Stipe
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- "So, we just kind of created our own thing and that’s part of the beauty of Athens: is that it’s so off the map and there’s no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing."
- "I’ve always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food."
- "We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring."
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- "I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere… Being a human being is what truly counts. That’s where you’ll find me."― Annie Lennox
- "Music is for every single person that walks the planet."― Robert Plant
- "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."― Gustav Mahler