A biography for David Bermanhasn’t been written yet.
“If they told me I couldn't leave the radius of six miles from my house, I really wouldn't care. There's nowhere I really want to go.”
“I don't have room in my mind to think about musical equipment.”
“In 2004, I don't think any Silver Jews fan was probably expecting another record.”
“I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art is supposed to do, mixing it up with people.”
“The world of commerce is a kind of a purgatory itself.”
“The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies. It's not that they fail because they're boring, but because they overreach.”
“I've never been from a certain group. I've always reserved a space for myself where I'm unattached to any group, but the part of Judaism that I really take away, that means something to me, is the part about community.”
“When people tend to be happier they have more interest in the world around them.”
“I heard Springsteen was an unhappy person. I don't know, I haven't read his biography. But a lot of people in my field should be a lot more unhappy than they are.”
“I always loved bands with mystique.”
“Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.”
“In my whole life, I've had maybe 10 people who have told me how much my music means to them.”
“I'm not convinced I have fans.”
“Bobby Braddock is great.”
“There are enough really good love songs and I don't even know if I could write one if I tried.”
“I take pride in the fact that I can walk away from things. My willingness to walk away has protected me, I realize that now. Being able to walk away from sessions, from poetry, from dreams of being a poetry professor.”
“My great grandfather was the last practicing Jew in my family. He died in 1982.”
“Nashville only thrives when talented people from out of town move here from somewhere else.”
“If I believed in fate I'd be very curious why I picked the name Silver Jews.”
“I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.”