Quotes by Ariel Pink

About Ariel Pink:

Ariel Marcus Rosenberg is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer based in Los Angeles, California. He is known for his musical eclecticism, influenced by 1980s cassette culture. He has released three studio albums on the 4AD label and was closely associated with the band Animal Collective.
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Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit introspective, a little bit morbid. I was small for my age, so I was bullied and that kind of stuff.

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You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and ma...

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I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

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When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the unive...

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If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer sp...

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I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.

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I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.

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I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

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I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

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I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

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There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like it's not a big deal. That, to me, is a crime.

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I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

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I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.

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If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

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I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

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I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.

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I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

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Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?

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R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.

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That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

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Author Bio

  • NameAriel Pink
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornJune 24, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMusician; Composer; Singer-songwriter