Top 40 Quotes by Sufjan Stevens

About Sufjan Stevens

These are some quotes by American author Sufjan Stevens Musician, who was born on July 1, 1975.

I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.

I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.

Sufjan Stevens

I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's kind of an open-ended concept. It doesn't have to be taken so literally.

I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's kind of an open-ended concept. It doesn't have to be taken so literally.

Sufjan Stevens

I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

Sufjan Stevens

I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young.

I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young.

Sufjan Stevens

I'm pretty involved in everything I do, which isn't always efficient and doesn't necessarily make for the more successful product. But I do feel that, in that sense, everything I do has a comprehensiveness to it.

Sufjan Stevens

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

Sufjan Stevens

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

Sufjan Stevens

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

Sufjan Stevens

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

Sufjan Stevens

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Sufjan Stevens

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