Taylor Hanson Quotes

#1. The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar ... whatever it is.

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#2. The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

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#3. Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.

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#4. Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

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#5. You have to like yourself before you can do anything!

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#6. Everything is exciting. Who knows what will happen next?

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#7. You have to know what you want and keep going for it.

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#8. Love is putting yourself second

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#9. You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

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#10. I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

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#11. I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

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#12. Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

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#13. I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

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#14. It's really weird getting phone calls, and people going 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'

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#15. I've figured out what to do with my hands ... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

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#16. You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.

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#17. A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

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#18. Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

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#19. As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

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#20. My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.

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#21. Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.

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#22. Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

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#23. I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

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#24. Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

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#25. You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

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#26. He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.

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#27. There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

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#28. Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.

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#29. People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

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#30. The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.

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#31. There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

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