1. 17 November 2011

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    I could not perform “Everybody Hurts” for the last time in London with 30,000 people in the room or 80,000 people on the field knowing full well it was the last time we were going to do it. I just couldn’t. I would collapse. It would be impossible – I wouldn’t be able to hit the notes. We all knew that would be a really hard thing to do. It’s just not very R.E.M. I hate to quote “The Simpsons” quoting us (laughs), but it would not be a very R.E.M. way to do that kind of thing. So we decided to do it our way. I’m really proud of the way that we did it.
    — 

    Michael Stipe: Why R.E.M. called it a day

    Michael on why the band never deliberately went out for a final tour. “The idea of doing some kind of victory lap or final farewell tour just felt — and still feels — like it would have been completely mercenary and exploitative and impossible.”

    (via perpetua)

    As someone who had to say a lot of goodbyes this year and wanted to skip out on as many of them as possible (I had to promise my old boss that I wouldn’t skip my goodbye party!), it’s no surprise that I understand, respect, and love every single bit of this. 

     
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