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Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens

American Musician

Born: Jul 1, 1975

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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. Sufjan Stevens

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day. Sufjan Stevens

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I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects. Sufjan Stevens

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I think musicians should stay off television generally. Sufjan Stevens

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I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge. Sufjan Stevens

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I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music. Sufjan Stevens

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I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young. Sufjan Stevens

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It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write. Sufjan Stevens

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I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.' Sufjan Stevens

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I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally. Sufjan Stevens

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Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work. Sufjan Stevens

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Every time Jimmy Scott sings, it's the same but slightly different. I don't know how he does that or where he gets that from. I think it's instinct. Nothing he does is by chance; he's in complete control of what he's doing. He's just beautiful and unique. Sufjan Stevens

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I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it. Sufjan Stevens

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I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought. Sufjan Stevens

Hated Always Holy Night

I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They're dated and sentimental and the production is nearly unlistenable, but there's something about her vocal performance that just feels really true. I would take her Christmas albums over Mariah Carey's or Destiny's Child's any day. Sufjan Stevens

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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. Sufjan Stevens

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. Sufjan Stevens

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