Voice of modernity: the best quotes from Sergei Shnurov
The outrageous and odious leader of the Leningrad group, musician, actor, composer Sergei Shnurov, has become the object of close attention of the Russian-speaking society in recent years.
And if at the beginning of his creative career no one paid attention to the singer’s statements, then recently his work has been taken seriously. There are many reasons for this. Let’s be honest: the main one is the change in the format of the musician’s thinking, which was reflected in his works. Now Sergei Shnurov is not just a rock performer swearing on stage. No, now he is an example of a modern thinker, a satirist. The singer subtly notices the shortcomings of modern society, exposing and ridiculing them.
Of course, Sergei owes his success largely to specialists: image makers, directors, screenwriters. However, the main source of public admiration is the man's sharp mind. His Instagram and live performances are parsed for quotes. Moreover, not all of them are obscene statements. No, the musician is truly a patriot of the Motherland and a very smart person. That is why his thoughts are of interest.
10 most famous quotes by S. Shnurov
“...Everyone who comes back to you has definitely already been with someone. Hence all these repentances “there is no better person”, etc. And no one ever thought about one thing: the person returned to you, not because he loves you, or because he realized some mistake. He just couldn’t find a replacement for you...”
“...I don’t like a lot of things in this country, because I am a true patriot. Those who like everything in this country are probably ***, German spies..."
3. About human culture
“...Culture is a very thin layer that covers our animal insides. Any person whose hands are not up to their elbows in blood is probably still cultured...”
4. About public opinion
“...By and large, I’m not interested in what they think about me, I’m interested in what I think. And not even about others, but about yourself..."
5. About a healthy lifestyle
“...Athletes do not live long and die painfully. I'm not even talking about injuries. In a healthy lifestyle, the main word is “image,” you know? This is an image. It has nothing to do with health..."
6. About obscene statements
“...I have never intentionally integrated swear words into songs. Mat, like alcohol, was an integral part of the era. The atmosphere in Russia could not be explained without swearing..."
“...Every period of life is unique. Few people understand this. Everyone is trying to live to a certain age - and now I’ll start! Every second is unique. You can never say: “Now I have succeeded.” You came into existence as soon as you were born...”
8. About a strong life position and beliefs
“...People who have strong opinions scare me. They never reason. Everything is clear to them. It’s unclear to me. When I reason, I try not to adhere to any beliefs ... "
9. About Russia and Russians
“...We are endlessly looking for those to blame. Nobody cares about themselves. It’s your neighbor’s fault that you’re so flawed...”
“...I don’t like the company of dissent marches. I don't like the leaders of this tribe. I don't like leaders at all. I am a free man in a free world..."
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Great and mighty: the best quotes from Sergei Shnurov
In honor of his birthday (today the leader of the Leningrad group is 43) - Instagram statements and reflections from the country's favorite poet. Mainly about women
“Why do women love me? Because I love them so much! To paraphrase Belinsky (he is talking about the theater): “Do you love women the way I love them, that is, with all the strength of your soul, with all the enthusiasm, with all the frenzy?” Any lady is more complex and interesting than any theater.”
“In a family, everything is very simple: you need to give confidence to the man that he is in charge. An intelligent woman will never be in charge, but at the same time, of course, she will have all the control levers. An intelligent woman acts subtly. And the stupid one defends her rights.”
“Dreams come true! Off course. In a pile. From the account. And they lie helpless. Lost dreams."
“Every period of life is unique. Few people understand this. Everyone is trying to live to a certain age - and now I’ll start! Every second is unique. You can never say: “Now I have succeeded.” You came into existence as soon as you were born.”
“If someone ever asks me what I did for Russian culture, seriously, without jokes, I will say that I returned passion to it. That same Dionysian principle that we prefer not to see and keep silent about. I depicted love fever, alcoholic madness, lustful rage in my screaming songs. Those volcanic emotions, without which there is and cannot be a complex, elemental person.”
“Here Akhmatova’s sunsets are alive,
The vault of heaven is built here like a block,
Quotes are walking along the Fontanka
From plays not written by anyone"
“I can’t live without a woman. Without her, my meaning is lost. It’s as if I’m even becoming thinner without her. I am spread out with deeds and thoughts, and I murmur in a rather weak stream without enthusiasm. And with it, everything somehow takes shape, acquires clarity, one might even say, meaningfulness. Power. Direction. With whom? With her! For what? For her!"
“As Chesterton wrote, we learn about many wonderful people only when we read the obituary in the morning newspaper. So it is in the era of Instagram. You can only find out that a person has subscribed to you after he has stated that he is unfollowing you.”
“What could be simpler? No thoughts - don't write. But now is the time, I need to write. You can not read, but you cannot not write. It needs to be distributed. What? Your beliefs! Your own beliefs, which are not your own at all. Beliefs become infected in public places, like the flu. These are viruses. Epidemics of beliefs come and go, leaving behind memories and recorded thoughts. A lot of thoughts. These are thoughts that almost no one thought, but became infected with. They thought that they were thinking, but their thoughts were not much different from the thoughts of budgies.”
“Irreconcilable fighters against obscenities are fighters against the Russian language as a structure.”
“When I was just a child, one wise woman gave me very valuable advice. “Sergei,” she said, “if you can’t be good, at least be careful.”
“Women’s shoes, as the key to happiness, a sacred object, a turning point in the plot, from this perspective we have seen girls’ shoes at least twice and are familiar to each of us. "Cinderella" and "The Night Before Christmas". Our Louboutins grow from slippers and glass slippers. The so-called glamor (which for some reason seems to many everywhere) is infinitesimal compared to such powerful nails driven into our heads. That's what I think resonated and is resonating. The new old tale is unrecognizable in its familiarity. Well, it’s worth remembering about “Valenki” by the great Lydia Ruslanova.”
“My heart is full. I love my wife, my children, my parents, I love my friends, my cat. It seems to me that Putin, and indeed any media character, is loved by those who have not gone well in their personal lives.”
“Women are like cigarettes. They kill. At first, it even seems like there is pleasure, but then it fades and only a bad habit remains, nothing more. Addiction. Yes, of course, it's better to quit. At all. Harmful. And women and cigarettes. But I still love you. Smoking."
“Women are adaptive creatures, like life itself. They, like water, accept any form of play: sexual, social, cultural. Men, on the other hand, are more like stones that change the trajectory and direction of the flow without changing the very essence. Water remains water. She can become cheeky-lipped or well-read and modest, accepting the rules for arranging stones, flowing around them along the routes they themselves suggested. Its task is to flow. Women, mostly following their nature, intuitively choose the strategy of least resistance and the shortest trajectory, again like life. Silicone filling, leatherette shell, concentrated defocus, omnivorous branding - this is the trajectory, the rules of the game that men established. They are the customers of the stylistic solution of this show. Stones. For some reason now they howl and scream as if something is not to their taste.”
“Time is a stubborn illusion,” grumbled old man Einstein. It is a derivative of our ability to remember. Without memory and imagination, which create time, time does not exist. We do not live in time, but it lives in us. We produce it, we produce milk, like ladybugs, that no one has ever seen.”
“As soon as I heard from a lady: “You are my soul mate,” I immediately stopped all relations with her. I didn't want to be someone's soul mate. I lived somehow before her and was not my soul mate. A strong-willed person, as the hero Basilashvili said in “Autumn Marathon”. And if, let’s say, she has a mistress or a lover, then you’re already a quarter, it turns out. What if there are two? This way you can unnoticed and become an eighth. And her. Or did I go to the side and leave a quarter of her half there? Am I still half of her? No, I’d rather do without arithmetic in relationships.”
“Women's fashion stores are as inspiring as fishing, dachas and pubs. I saw in them triumphs and downfalls, disappointments and delights, beauty and ugliness. The amplitudes of feelings and emotions are quite comparable to those in a football stadium. You just need to take a closer look. Fresh collections, like young lovers, invite ladies into the risky and ambiguous. Old, past-season ones, like abandoned husbands, are gathering dust on the shelves and will soon be given away to someone for next to nothing. A big, amazing and absolutely not a man's world. There I peek and find stories. It's never boring."
“The fact is that it is basically impossible to understand what women want. Women themselves do not know what they want. This is what we need to build on. In general, you cannot break a woman using the logical method of cause and effect. As the great singer Tanya Bulanova sings, “but yes is no, and no is yes. »
“The time of great artists has passed and the time of great spectators has come. The writer died, following the composer and artist. Long live the reader and listener! From now on, the object of art in itself is not as important as the comments on it. Witnesses and their testimony, and not the criminal (art is always a crime, as going beyond the boundaries of what already exists) and the victim (pre-existing), commentators and interpreters, they are now the main participants in this case.”
“Mascara, lipstick, foundation, powder, all kinds of brushes, pencils, plastic surgery, and finally, this cunning set of products and tools brings women closer to an imaginary aesthetic ideal. That's how they see it. They create their appearance. Create an image. Every day in front of the mirror they apply a cosmetic polish, gracefully masking all sorts of inconsistencies with their ideas of beauty. It's like a ritual. It's close to a cult. This is an artistic production. This sacrificial self-denial and selfless service to beauty influences the “female” understanding of painting, and art in general, because every woman is a little bit of an Artist. The more makeup and all kinds of hair and eyelashes a lady wears, the simpler, more “moral” and more accurate her cultural needs are. In the understanding of heavily made-up women, only that which represents a heavily retouched reality, like herself, is good, because she is good.”
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Sergey Shnurov knows how to convey interesting and witty thoughts not only in song, but also through interviews and his Instagram.
For example.
I don't like power. But I don’t know who I don’t like more - the government or the people. They fucking deserve each other.
Vodka performs the functions of a reboot. If I get incredibly drunk, I give up: drunkenness is like a little death. And drinking is an art. I haven't met any decent people who don't drink. If a person does not drink at all, for me he is indecent. I can't find any common ground with him. It seems to me that there is something wrong with his soul. Either he's a scout or he's afraid.
We are endlessly looking for those to blame. Nobody cares about themselves. It's your neighbor's fault that you're so flawed.
My political position is to never engage in politics. This is a thankless task.
I don't know a time in this country when people liked what was happening. No one is happy in Rublyovka either, I’m telling you. And in the basements of St. Petersburg, everyone is also unhappy. This is a country of dissatisfied people by definition. People are born with a sour expression on their face. In the summer, bitch, it’s hot, in the winter, *** [damn], it’s cold, everything’s always wrong
People who have strong opinions scare me. They never reason. Everything is clear to them. It’s unclear to me. When I reason, I try not to hold any beliefs.
Every period of life is unique. Few people understand this. Everyone is trying to live to a certain age - and now I’ll start! Every second is unique. You can never say: “Now I have succeeded.” You came into existence as soon as you were born.
I drank every day for three years.
I didn’t expect such a success for the “Exhibit” video. Why? There is never an explanation for this. Today at the rehearsal I announced that for the next two years we don’t have to release anything; learn to play “Louboutins” well - and that will be enough.
Any extremes are fraught. “Neither dumbbells nor alcohol will make you smarter.” In principle, it doesn’t matter whether you ruin your health purposefully or care and cherish it purposefully - in any case, you are a *** [fool]. Because this is meaningless *** [nonsense]. When the meaning of life becomes either ensuring one’s own health or undermining it, this is *** [nonsense].
There is Elena Vaenga - she is *** [gorgeous]. Just look at her performances, she absolutely hits her target audience. This is the same woman who enters the burning hut. Polina Gagarina is not from the burning hut. And Vaenga is an absolutely Russian type, she suits this landscape. When you drive along the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway and see these rickety huts, what is Polina Gagarina like? Vaenga is playing there!
1998 - the most desperate revelry of our lives, a feast during the plague. Everyone suddenly became suddenly and extremely poor. It was much stronger than now. It was a collapse and a disaster. People had to use their brains and reinvent life. Many changed jobs and schemes. It was a withdrawal, it cheered me up. Now it will be the same. We will have to be more dexterous, the efficiency of people should increase.
No synthetics. All natural: pure alcohol.
If I had a burning desire to join some forces, I would have joined. I just don't like packs. Flocks are unfreedom. But I am still for personal freedom. I always want to be in a state of choice. When I have already made a choice, I can no longer be in the state of choice.
If someone ever asks me what I did for Russian culture, seriously, without joking, I will say that I returned passion to it. That same Dionysian principle that we prefer not to see and keep silent about. I depicted love fever, alcoholic madness, lustful rage in my screaming songs. Those volcanic emotions, without which there is and cannot be a complex, elemental person.
I've been living without a TV for eight years now. I looked at hotels before. But I haven’t looked anywhere for two years now. On TV you get the feeling that you live in a country of idiots. There is no such thing on the street. Life is truer than TV.
Those who zealously advocate for the preservation and enhancement of Russian culture, in fact, turn out to be absolutely and completely illiterate savages. And the firmer, more furious and “spiritual” their calls are, the more ignorant and stupid they are. Without errors, they can write one three-letter word, which they insert everywhere. And this word is God. Just as teenagers, in order to appear more mature, go overboard and cover their *** [penises] where they should and shouldn’t, so these cultural fighters swear in order to create the impression of spirituality. But, except for the atmosphere of corrupting idiocy. They don't create anything.
Why do women love me? Because I love them so much! To paraphrase Belinsky (he is talking about the theater): “Do you love women the way I love them, that is, with all the strength of your soul, with all the enthusiasm, with all the frenzy?” Any lady is more complex and interesting than any theater.
I also saw and witnessed how my grandfather, a sailor, celebrated Victory Day. Without any outward pride and bravado, he met with his comrades, veterans just like him. We drank. My grandfather played a seven-string guitar, and to his accompaniment they sang not necessarily military songs. Toasts like “We are winners!” I did not hear. There was no arrogance in this holiday. They celebrated not only and not so much Victory Day, but mainly the Day of the End of the War.
Well, the time has come to talk about the most important and exciting things. My note about big bellies. Everyone knows that men have three stages of puberty. 1. You can’t see how it hangs. 2. You can’t see how it’s standing. 3. It’s not clear who *** [delivers oral sex]. The third stage is the most interesting. It allows you to be practically independent and indiscriminate. I thought: maybe the belly is some kind of psychophysical barrier that grows with age, in order to somehow isolate yourself and no longer see the faces of boring and ugly wives. And one more important aspect of the third stage of ptosis. At the third stage it is no longer visible how it should not be.
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