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Sufjan Stevens is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his delicate melodies and introspective lyrics. His eclectic style blends elements of folk, pop, and classical music in innovative ways. He has earned critical acclaim for albums such as "Illinois" and "Carrie & Lowell." Here are 50 of his quotes:

I want it all, I want it all for myself. (Sufjan Stevens)
When I was three Three, maybe four She left us at that video store. View quote
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Found myself on Spencer's Butte Traced your shadow with my shoe Empty outline changed my view Now all of me thinks less of you. View quote
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I love you more than the world can contain in its lonely and ramshackle head. View quote
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Once when we moved away, She came to Romulus for a day. Her Chevrolet broke down. We prayed it'd never be fixed or be found. View quote
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Rest in my arms Sleep in my bed There's a design To what I did and said. View quote
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Ah, ah, Beautiful is the mother. Ah, ah, Beautiful is her son. View quote
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"Somewhere in the desert, there's a forest And an acre before us But I don't know where to begin. View quote
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I forgive you mother; I can hear you And I long to be near you But every road leads to an end. View quote
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Some part of me was lost in your sleeve Where you hid your cigarettes. View quote
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Well you do enough talk My little hawk, why do you cry? Tell me what did you learn From the Tillamook burn Or the Fourth of July? We're all gonna die. (Sufjan Stevens)
Did I make you cry On Christmas day? Did I let you down Like every other day? Did I make you cry On Christmas day? Did I let you down On Christmas day? ... I stay awake at night After we have a fight I'm writing poems about you And they aren't very nice. View quote
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Seek His face, He'll never let you down. Worship grace, He'll never let you down. View quote
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Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. View quote
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Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it. View quote
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I think musicians should stay off television generally. View quote
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My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. View quote
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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. View quote
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The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. View quote
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I'm a very self-conscious person; I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances; it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise. View quote
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My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small. (Sufjan Stevens)
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating. View quote
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One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk. View quote
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I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all. View quote
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Fuck me, I'm falling apart. View quote
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Sufjan Stevens - Image
Photo: Sufjan Stevens playing banjo.jpg: Joe Lencioni derivative work: Antilived, CC BY-SA 2.5
Occupation: American Singer
Born: July 1, 1975
Quotes count: 50
Wikipedia: Sufjan Stevens

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