Ian Williams Quotes
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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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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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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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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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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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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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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I'm too tasteful for my pants.
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We're on the edge of a liver-disease epidemic.
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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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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We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.
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This is an unusual outbreak because it is linked to one source that has nationwide implications,
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Juan and Andres pledge themselves to a Latino empowerment organization.
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This meets the density, quality, cost structure and scalability needs of the diverse embedded market.
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Friendly, accommodating and customer-centered as always. Even though I don't normally have champagne with breakfast at the crack of dawn, I felt compelled to rise to the occasion when it was offered.
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American commentators always ridicule the Japanese as being outdated because of company loyalty. 21 year olds that work in coffee shops don't want to admit it, but their system of "being in a band" is working the same way.
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I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar.
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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.