Michael Stipe Quotes

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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.

Michael Stipe

If I’m tired of me, I’m sure the public is as well.

Michael Stipe

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.

Michael Stipe

There was a point in the ’80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that – were I not on the stage – they’d sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

Michael Stipe

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

Michael Stipe

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

Michael Stipe

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that’s the great thing about America, we can disagree!

Michael Stipe

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

Michael Stipe

We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

Michael Stipe

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

Michael Stipe

My feeling is that labels are for canned food… I am what I am – and I know what I am.

Michael Stipe

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we’re very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

Michael Stipe

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

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.

Michael Stipe

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.

Michael Stipe

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

Michael Stipe

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

Michael Stipe

I’m not homosexual, I’m not hetrosexual, I’m just sexual.

Michael Stipe

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

Michael Stipe