Michael Stipe Quotes

• We don’t get groupies. We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.

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• Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries.

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

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

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• When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That’s a sure sign. It’s been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.

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• 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.

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• We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

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• 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.

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• They always want me to play myself and that’s a big snooze.

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

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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.

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• There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

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• Super casual music listeners. That’s most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that’s why Top 40 radio exists. It’s not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

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

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• 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.

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• So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we’re kind of an international phenomenon.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

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Michael Stipe (35)

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

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