100 Quotes by Samuel Ervin Beam

I'm very flattered the press wants to write about me.

I find making records by myself incredibly boring.

I learned early on that you do yourself a disservice trying to replicate the record onstage every night. As a player, and for the audience I think, it's a mistake.

Contradictions are fun.

At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad.

I change things each time we go into making a record, like the personnel playing on it, the types of music.

A thing can be too pretty and perfect, so if you kick some dirt on it, then it feels like you wore it around a bit.

I didn't really intend on having a music career. It just kind of happened.

I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when I sit down to read some poetry, I usually read more contemporary stuff.