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Top 30 Colin Meloy Quotes (2025 Update)

Colin Meloy Quote: “An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.”

1. “An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.”

2. “We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.”

3. “It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I’ve written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...”

4. “And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I’ve written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “All instruments sound fantastic in a church.”

5. “All instruments sound fantastic in a church.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “When everybody is playing at the same level, there’s so much more noise. And there’s less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they’re doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.”

6. “When everybody is playing at the same level, there’s so much more noise. And there’s less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they’re doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.”

7. “My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There’s an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.”

8. “Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There’s an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.”

9. “I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.”

10. “This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone – that’s about it.”

11. “I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone – that’s about it.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “There’s some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.”

12. “There’s some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “Meditation. That’s the key. Supposedly. Calming your mind ind total silence. Understanding your connection to the natural world and all that. You do that, and you can hear it. All the talking.”

13. “Meditation. That’s the key. Supposedly. Calming your mind ind total silence. Understanding your connection to the natural world and all that. You do that, and you can hear it. All the talking.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.”

14. “No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.”

15. “I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.”

16. “I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.”

17. “It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.”

18. “I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there’s an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.”

19. “When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there’s an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “The jam stuff doesn’t appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia’s songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I’m a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it’s uninteresting to me.”

20. “The jam stuff doesn’t appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia’s songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I’m a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it’s uninteresting to me.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn’t hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people.”

21. “When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn’t hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “It’s hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.”

22. “It’s hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.”

23. “One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “You can’t really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.”

24. “You can’t really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “That’s the beauty of things, right? People should be able to believe what they want to, follow who they want to.”

25. “That’s the beauty of things, right? People should be able to believe what they want to, follow who they want to.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don’t think there’s any way that can’t somehow influence the songwriting.”

26. “Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don’t think there’s any way that can’t somehow influence the songwriting.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “That, combined with the look of absolute rage on their faces, gave them the likeness of furies released from the depths to wage chaos on the living world.”

27. “That, combined with the look of absolute rage on their faces, gave them the likeness of furies released from the depths to wage chaos on the living world.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It’s an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.”

28. “I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It’s an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.”

29. “Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “It was one of those summer days that seemed to stretch on into eternity, and the heat was such that you couldn’t believe the grass, yellow in patches where the gardener’s watering can had been remiss, didn’t just erupt into flames.”

30. “It was one of those summer days that seemed to stretch on into eternity, and the heat was such that you couldn’t believe the grass, yellow in patches where the gardener’s watering can had been remiss, didn’t just erupt into flames.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “You’re riding a runaway train into a tunnel that leads into a station where there’s a welcome-home party from all your worst nightmares.”

31. “You’re riding a runaway train into a tunnel that leads into a station where there’s a welcome-home party from all your worst nightmares.”

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Colin Meloy Quote: “Prue felt like someone had bored a hole in her stomach the size of a basketball.”

32. “Prue felt like someone had bored a hole in her stomach the size of a basketball.”

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