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John Maus Biography

John Maus (born February 23, 1980) is an American musician, composer, singer, songwriter, and philosopher. His music is characterized by vintage synthesizer sounds and the use of Medieval church modes, which frequently draw comparisons to 1980s goth-pop. Much of his early lo-fi work was created using a cassette multi-track recorder and an early 1990s synthesizer soundbank, and is noted for anticipating the late 2000s hypnagogic pop movement. On stage, he is characterized for his intense displays of emotion while performing. He is also a former teacher of philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he later earned his PhD in political science.

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It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines and what they are telling us to do. The alternative, I believe, in is pitiless censorship. Because we owe each other the best effort we can to see one another without that mediation.

Believe, Best Effort, Effort, Glossy, Teenage

I don't really know what playing is. There's a way to do it correctly, but it eludes me. I think getting in front of an audience is definitely a good way to focus in on the real dimension of the activity, the most important dimension.

Correctly, Eludes, Focus, Real, Thinking

There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love. " I don't know what you would call the other kinds - maybe brotherly love, Christian love, the love of Saint Francis, love of everyone and everything. Then there's romantic love, which, by and large, is a pain in the ass, a kind of trauma.

Christian, Greeks, Pain, Romantic Love, Saint, Words

I really try as hard as I can on the show. If people can't see my face, if they can't see my sweat beads or at least that I'm struggling, that I'm not just pretending or going through the motions, then who can blame them for thinking that it's some kind of ridiculous piss-take?

Kind, Pretending, Struggle, Struggling, Sweat, Thinking

I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.

Idea, Ideas, Life, Mean, World

The man believes the woman's got the hidden secret. That's a rare thing. You meet lots of people, and they're all deserved of love, of course, but romantic love involves some kind of supplement: she has the secret. That's what's desired.

Believe, Lots, Love, Meet, Men, Romantic Love

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

Fantasy, Ideas, Interested, Might, Musical, Rich

In all the music I've done, what I'm really interested in above all else, and I'm not sure it's what one should be interested in, is the kind of - you know, people talk about work progressions, which doesn't really make sense with pop music because there is no progression, because there is no tonic, because there is no more tonality.

Done, Kind, People, Progression, Tonic, Work

I would never want to kill a human being.

Human, Human Beings, Humans, Kill, Want

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

Assumed, Drama, Forces, Giving, Man, Men

I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.

Absurdities, Kinds, Mean, Struggle, Violence

There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.

Encounter, Encounters, Romantic Love, Strange, Traumatic, Violent

I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of love - which they just can't shake. They take it with them, despite their own desire, and it continually haunts them, and there's nothing to be done about it. That's a true rarity.

Desire, Encounter, Encounters, People, Take

Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.

Decision, Decisions, Earning, Force, Opposed

I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when, in practice, I'm not thinking about that when I'm working over the keyboard, or musing over musical ideas in my head. But when discussing it, we want to have some new thought about this new music.

Ideas, Practice, Steeped, Thinking, Thought

Various people have put forth that love is the scene of two, that it's not about unity, it's about two absolutely disjunct positions encountering each other. So here, even with something like sex-- what [that song's] about-- you could never become one.

Forth, Love Is, Positions, Sex, Two, Various

In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.

Apart, Drama, Female, Males, Sexual

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

Achievement, Anytime, Faces, Impossibility, Write, Writing