Michael Stipe Quotes

Michael Stipe (33)

Birth:	4th January, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Lyricist, Producer, Singer

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• 1909 - Fred Perry
• 1891 - Rudolf Carnap
• 1946 - Andreas Katsulas
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• 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

• Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.

  Michael Stipe

• So, we just kind of created our own thing and that’s part of the beauty of Athens: is that it’s so off the map and there’s no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

  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

• On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

  Michael Stipe

• Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

  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

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

  Michael Stipe

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

  Michael Stipe

• I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

  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’ve always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

  Michael Stipe

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