Ian Williams Quotes

#1. Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

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#2. Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

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#3. I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

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#4. We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

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#5. I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

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#6. I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

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#7. I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

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#8. This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

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#9. A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

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#10. I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

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#11. I'm too tasteful for my pants.

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#12. I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

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#13. We made happy sounds because we were upset ... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

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