Creative Loafing Interviews Sufjan Stevens

Oh sweat, I love this dude.

“What I’ve learned through my life and through my singing is that the less you give and the quieter you are, then the more people will listen,” says Stevens. “And there’s just a lot of hype and flourishes and circus acts going on all over the place in popular music, and everyone’s vying desperately for attention. But I think that what that does is it exhausts the listener, and that people are really ready for music that’s quiet and sophisticated and that’s soft-spoken.” (full story)

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