Dan Deacon Quotes

#1. What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

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#2. It's weird how people hate getting older ...

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#3. Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

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#4. For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

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#5. You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

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#6. It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

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#7. I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

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#8. The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

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#9. I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

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#10. I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.

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#11. I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

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#12. When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

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#13. I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

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#14. If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

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