Sufjan Stevens - FUTILE DEVICES live in Warsaw (by kizlapa1)
if you’re not a sufjan stevens fan I regret to inform you that you’ve followed the wrong blog.
what a great song.
(via isitthemajesty)
I do believe that if I didn’t have the means of communicating my imagination through my work, I would probably recede into madness. There is a kind of grounding that music creates. It is a form for me to work through my dysfunctions, emotional and mental…I sometimes think we are all mentally disabled, in a way, but there are these structures in life that keep us in line, but sometimes we are too formalised and conditioned. Just look at children playing alone in their rooms, and the vastness of sounds and characters. They create all these beautiful things with their imagination, and we all have that, it is still in us.
—Sufjan Stevens (via isittherightword)
(Source: irishtimes.com, via fuckyeahsufjanstevens)
this song is amazing. and he is hilarious. what’s not to love?
I believe in the force of language, and I believe that words create reality. But I think that reality will always be an illusion, it’s not actuality, it’s a representation, and so there’s a limited value and function for any symbol. It’s just an indication of a deeper, greater transcendent thing. I’ve started to realize more and more lately that language is a utility, but it’s also a futility.
—Sufjan Stevens (via isittherightword)
(Source: totallydublin.ie, via isitthemajesty)
We’ve lived in a delusion and somehow created a social, civic network that makes us feel completely severed from the natural world. Which is one of the great mistakes we’ve made. […] I guess somehow we think we’re the ultimate species because of our consciousness, like we have this leverage of our cerebral power. But we’re animals, and it’s all about survival of the fittest. I think that our life is not our own. We have the short privilege of being stewards of these bodies. But I think there’s a lot to be learned from meditating on mortality. I don’t know if I buy into the apocalypse as a literal event, but I do see it as a… slow and inevitable death…
—Sufjan Stevens (via fuckyeahsufjanstevens)
(Source: totallydublin.ie, via fuckyeahsufjanstevens)
“Usually we have about an hour, we can just drop acid and smoke pot, then we come up here. Everything just falls into place when you’re stoned. Right now I’m just so sober.”
(Source: franiefroufrou, via isitthemajesty)
don’t stop, don’t break
you can delight because you have a place.
(via isitthemajesty)
Music is clearly fundamental to my life. It’s become necessary for my health. I think.. if I could no longer write music.. I’d die. That’s how I feel. I can’t explain it better than that.
—Sufjan Stevens
