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Michael Stipe

"I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery."

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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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Michael Stipe
"I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery."

Being

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Michael Stipe
"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"

America

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Michael Stipe
"We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring."

Death

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Michael Stipe
"Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin."

God

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Michael Stipe
"I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself."

Reading

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Michael Stipe
"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."

Beach

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Michael Stipe
"I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical."

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Michael Stipe
"There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir."

People

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Michael Stipe
"If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well."

Public

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Michael Stipe
"We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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