Natural Affinity

"People think we’re a pop act and don’t get that we’re into psychedelic music and we take all the kind of super-catchy pop music with a grain of salt. We love pop music, but at the same time we listen to a lot of noisy weird shit as well. We’re still kind of confused by how we were accepted on an extremely mainstream pop level, and there was a lot of backlash against us from people who might really like what we’re doing, but their gut reaction to it was that it was pop bullshit, just regurgitating old ideas."

— Ben Goldwasser (MGMT)

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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few."

— Emily Dickinson, Nature

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Mrs. Robinson: Is it a girl?

Ben: Is what a girl?

Mrs. Robinson: Whatever it is you're upset about?

Ben: Oh, no. I'm just sort of disturbed about things.

Mrs. Robinson: In general.

Ben: That's right.

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"Lately got to thinking that, how I long to have you here with me."

— Beach House | Lovelier Girl

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"Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it."

— Ninon de L’Enclos

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Chuck Versus The Sandworm

Sarah: Oh, uh... how long do you want me to stay?

Chuck: Forty-two minutes and fifteen seconds. Arcade Fire’s first album... it’s like an auditory aphrodisiac… Uh, you’re not really ready for it yet...

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"I develop all the textbook symptoms of a crush: nervous stomach, long periods spent daydreaming, an inability to remember what she looks like. I can bring back the dress and the boots, and I can see her bangs, but her face is a blank, and I fill it in with some anonymous rent-a-cracker details — pouty red lips, even though it was her well-scrubbed English clever-girl look that attracted me to her in the first place; almond-shaped eyes, even though she was wearing sunglasses most of the time; pale, perfect skin, even though I know she’s quite freckly. When I meet her I know there’ll be an initial twinge of disappointment — this is what all that internal fuss was about? — and then I’ll find something to get excited about again: the fact that she’s turned up at all, a sexy voice, intelligence, wit, something. And between the second and the third meeting a whole new set of myths will be born."

— Rob Gordon, High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby

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"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses."

— Voltaire
(Source: naturalaffinity)

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"Life is not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A moment’s pause to watch the glory of a sunrise or a sunset is soul satisfying, while a bird’s song will set the steps to music all day long."

— Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Source: naturalaffinity)

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"Music was my side chick, but now we’re movin’ in together."

— Childish Gambino, “Be Alone”
(Source: iamdonald.com)

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"Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable…. but most of all, it’s having those loved ones."

— Johnny Cash
(Source: naturalaffinity)

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"The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber."

— Francis Quarles
(Source: naturalaffinity)

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"Every night it was the same. He’d be reading and listening to music."

— Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
(Source: naturalaffinity)

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"Under dormant trees, under bright lit skies
Mountains of maple leaves standing side by side
The phone lines, the street lights, lead me to you
And if you just sit tight, I’ll be there soon."

— Real Estate, “Green Aisles”
(Source: naturalaffinity)

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