Quotes by John Maus - Page 1

I would never want to kill a human being.
John Maus / Musician
Human Beings
Humans
Want
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I think it's better to just say nothing at all than to just send two words.
John Maus / Musician
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Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.
John Maus / Musician
Achievement
Faces
Writing
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I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.
John Maus / Musician
Ideas
Mean
World
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With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.
John Maus / Musician
Fall
Surprise
Writing
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I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.
John Maus / Musician
Ideas
Might
Musical
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It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.
John Maus / Musician
Aesthetic
Important
Theory
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Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.
John Maus / Musician
Enthusiasm
Musical
Vacuous
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I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.
John Maus / Musician
Mean
Struggle
Violence
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Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others that a monastic life does not afford.
John Maus / Musician
Film
Insight
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In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.
John Maus / Musician
Drama
Female
Males
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There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.
John Maus / Musician
Encounters
Romantic Love
Strange
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The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.
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Men
Drama
Giving
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I'm against eating a human being alive - I don't do it. Somebody might make cannibalism jokes and laugh it off like it's nothing. I don't agree with that. I want to proclaim a rejection of cannibalism.
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Alive
Laughing
Rejection
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It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It was something other than making ends meet, it was an escape from all that.
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Done
Ends
People
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I don't really know what playing is. There's a way to do it correctly, but it eludes me. I think getting in front of an audience is definitely a good way to focus in on the real dimension of the activity, the most important dimension.
John Maus / Musician
Focus
Real
Thinking
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The man believes the woman's got the hidden secret. That's a rare thing. You meet lots of people, and they're all deserved of love, of course, but romantic love involves some kind of supplement: she has the secret. That's what's desired.
John Maus / Musician
Men
Believe
Romantic Love
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Various people have put forth that love is the scene of two, that it's not about unity, it's about two absolutely disjunct positions encountering each other. So here, even with something like sex-- what [that song's] about-- you could never become one.
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Love Is
Sex
Two
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Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.
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Decision
Earning
Force
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I really try as hard as I can on the show. If people can't see my face, if they can't see my sweat beads or at least that I'm struggling, that I'm not just pretending or going through the motions, then who can blame them for thinking that it's some kind of ridiculous piss-take?
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Struggle
Sweat
Thinking
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I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of love - which they just can't shake. They take it with them, despite their own desire, and it continually haunts them, and there's nothing to be done about it. That's a true rarity.
John Maus / Musician
Desire
Encounters
People
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It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines and what they are telling us to do. The alternative, I believe, in is pitiless censorship. Because we owe each other the best effort we can to see one another without that mediation.
John Maus / Musician
Believe
Ideas
Teenage
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I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when, in practice, I'm not thinking about that when I'm working over the keyboard, or musing over musical ideas in my head. But when discussing it, we want to have some new thought about this new music.
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Ideas
Practice
Thinking
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In terms of love and romance, it just seems less and less like that's ever going to happen again, or be a possibility for me. I feel like I've irrevocably lost so much. You want the surprise, but it gets harder and harder to find, whether we're talking about romance, or somebody else's song, or your own song.
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Romance
Song
Talking
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In all the music I've done, what I'm really interested in above all else, and I'm not sure it's what one should be interested in, is the kind of - you know, people talk about work progressions, which doesn't really make sense with pop music because there is no progression, because there is no tonic, because there is no more tonality.
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Done
Kind
People
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There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I don't know what you would call the other kinds - maybe brotherly love, Christian love, the love of Saint Francis, love of everyone and everything. Then there's romantic love, which, by and large, is a pain in the ass, a kind of trauma.
John Maus / Musician
Christian
Pain
Romantic Love
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