Top 38 Britt Daniel Quotes
#1. I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn't be nearly as great as they are if it wasn't for them having a real group.
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#2. Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.
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#3. I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".
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#4. I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.
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#5. The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
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#6. I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.
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#7. I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.
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#8. The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?
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#9. Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.
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#10. I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
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#11. There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.
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#13. It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.
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#14. I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.
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#16. I guess if we do enough shows and keep doing it long enough, then people will get the picture. But I can't really be bothered if they don't get the picture. That's not my concern.
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#17. I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.
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#19. There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
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#20. Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.
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#21. I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.
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#22. I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.
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#23. I do go through periods of obsession with certain records.
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#24. I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.
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#25. I don't wanna keep playing the same song over and over again. It's just thinking about "what's going to be the coolest thing to play on this particular show?" The easiest thing to do is to play the single over and over again.
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#26. I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able to legislate people having to buy a record in order to listen to it. You have to look at it as a means of promotion, and if the music is good enough, promotion is a good thing.
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#27. I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.
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#29. I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an immediate impact and make it unique. I'll probably always work with that formula; I just don't know how.
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#30. I'm used to coming up with a lot of parts. And I don't have to do that so much [with Divine Fits]. This is the kind of band I've always wanted to be in because we never set up any aesthetic rules when we started it. We just wrote and edited, and it ended up sounding like Divine Fits.
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#32. I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.
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#33. I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.
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#34. You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.
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#35. I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.
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#36. It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I was not expecting it. When I start singing in the middle of "Baby Get Worse", they go nuts. Just little surprises like that.
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#37. It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about.
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#38. You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.
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