Top 50 St. Vincent Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s not enough to do good. It must be done well.”

— St. Vincent

2. “Go to the poor there you will find God.”

— St. Vincent

3. “I just love playing guitar, so that’s what I’m going to do.”

— St. Vincent

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4. “Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.”

— St. Vincent

5. “No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.”

— St. Vincent

6. “I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it’s all chaos. I call it ‘the dark fear.’ At any moment, the dark fear could come in.”

— St. Vincent

7. “Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.”

— St. Vincent

8. “I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it’s a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists – all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.”

— St. Vincent

9. “I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.”

— St. Vincent

10. “The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.”

— St. Vincent

11. “Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?”

— St. Vincent

12. “To be honest, because there’s loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.”

— St. Vincent

13. “Outpouring of affection for God, of resting in his presence, of good feelings towards everyone and sentiments and prayers like theseare suspect if they do not express themselves in practical love which has real effects.”

— St. Vincent

14. “Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It’s like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.”

— St. Vincent

15. “Fashion, for me, is anything that’s aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It’s something that I appreciate and really like.”

— St. Vincent

16. “The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time.”

— St. Vincent

17. “My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad’s car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has ‘Kid Charlemagne’ on it.”

— St. Vincent

18. “Your skin’s so fair its not fair.”

— St. Vincent

19. “The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town – hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.”

— St. Vincent

20. “The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.”

— St. Vincent

21. “Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul.”

— St. Vincent

22. “All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.”

— St. Vincent

23. “However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.”

— St. Vincent

24. “And if I’m honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like ’92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.”

— St. Vincent

25. “I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I’d rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.”

— St. Vincent

26. “I love Robert Fripp. You know what I really appreciate about Robert Fripp? He always dresses appropriately for the occasion. When he’s on stage, he’s a Dapper Dan.”

— St. Vincent

27. “I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don’t even know how to explain it. I can’t imagine life without it.”

— St. Vincent

28. “Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.”

— St. Vincent

29. “One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they’re not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.”

— St. Vincent

30. “I’ve been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.”

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31. “Well, I’ve been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it’s completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that’s better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.”

— St. Vincent

32. “It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.”

— St. Vincent

33. “I only listen to my own music when I’m playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don’t put it on recreationally.”

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34. “I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.”

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35. “I’m supportive of women, absolutely, and it’s so gratifying to have girls come up and say, ‘I’m really inspired by your guitar playing.’ I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.”

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36. “It is absolutely necessary, both for our advancement and the salvation of others, to follow always and in all things the beautiful light of faith.”

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37. “I’ve always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.”

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38. “I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.”

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39. “I’ve been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.”

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40. “I’ve always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.”

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41. “A song has a life of its own. It’s an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it’s subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn’t feel like wallowing.”

— St. Vincent

42. “Honey the party went away quickly, but thats the trouble with ticking and talking.”

— St. Vincent

43. “I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, ‘Men are like this, women are like this.’ Nobody was telling me, ‘Don’t get dirty, don’t play in the mud, girls don’t do that.’”

— St. Vincent

44. “In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there’s a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can’t completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.”

— St. Vincent

45. “In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.”

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46. “I’m unqualified to do anything other than music.”

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47. “I wrote ‘Actor’ all on the computer. I didn’t touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn’t have any songs.”

— St. Vincent

48. “Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.”

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49. “I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.”

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50. “Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.”

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