Ed Robertson Quotes

#1. I'm always nervous about singing ... always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

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#2. I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.

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#3. As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.

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#4. I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.

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#5. 'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

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#6. We have multi-generations coming to our show.

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#7. I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.

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#8. Whoever thought the future would feel so much like the present?

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#9. I think we should start a movement, and everyone should just start wearing metal pants to the airport.

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#10. I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little ... it'll grow back!

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#11. You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single.

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#12. Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.

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#13. I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.

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#14. If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.

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#15. People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with.

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