KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

St. Vincent Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by St. Vincent

Showing 21-30 of 36 Quotes by St. Vincent

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

~St. Vincent

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

~St. Vincent

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.

~St. Vincent

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.

~St. Vincent

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

~St. Vincent

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

~St. Vincent

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

~St. Vincent

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.

~St. Vincent

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

~St. Vincent

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.

~St. Vincent

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 28th, 1982

Links

Find St. Vincent on Amazon

Related Authors

Kurt Cobain
Bob Dylan
Eminem
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Tupac Shakur
Frank Sinatra
Frank Zappa

Popular Authors

John Adams Lewis Carroll Albert Einstein Aldous Huxley Charles Krauthammer Phil Mcgraw Mother Teresa Lil Uzi Vert

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Christmas Environmental Friendship Graduation Inspirational Legal Thankful Truth