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If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!
Michael Stipe
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Michael Stipe
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 4
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There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
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Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.
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And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.
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Anybody that walks can sing.
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I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and Peter Buck lived next door to Kurt and Courtney. So we all knew each other. I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen.
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My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.
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The artwork for the record is kind of an homage to that. It's a collage, which rhymes with homage, I just realized. It's an homage to this kind of almost like a teenager's idea of what the future might look like, if he were using a Xerox machine and cut-and-pasting it together. Which is exactly what we did to come up with the artwork.
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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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For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.
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Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.
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In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.
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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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I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
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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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There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.
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I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.
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To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.
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I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.
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The song Sing for the Submarine presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the future and it's post-apocalyptic.
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I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I think, and I was huddled in the back corner of our van and saying, I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I didn't want to play any more shows. I just wanted to stop.
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