Top 40 Quotes by Sufjan Stevens

About Sufjan Stevens

These are some quotes by American author Sufjan Stevens Musician, who was born on July 1, 1975.

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

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

Sufjan Stevens

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

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

Sufjan Stevens

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.

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.

Sufjan Stevens

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Sufjan Stevens

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

Sufjan Stevens

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

Sufjan Stevens

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

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.

Sufjan Stevens

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

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

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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