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25 quotes by Justin Vernon

Justin DeYarmond Edison Vernon (born April 30, 1981) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer. He is best known as the primary songwriter and frontman of indie folk band Bon Iver. Vernon is also a member of the bands Volcano Choir, The Shouting Matches and Gayngs.
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Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind.

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Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When you're... →

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Honestly, before I settled on a name for the Bon Iver project in general, Chigliak was in the running for what I was going to name the band.

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I'm a creature of comfort.

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The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

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I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I... →

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I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it's not... →

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I could go on and on and on about how we use the word 'place' in so many different ways. About how somebody might ask you 'Where you... →

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I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you... →

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I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would... →

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I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through... →

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The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.... →

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There's a few times in the past when I wrote a song, and I put the words together, and they were very clear pictures, and I felt like I was... →

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