Winston Marshall Quotes
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We're all big fans of bluegrass.
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I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.'
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New York - it's the center of the world.
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I cut off my dreadlocks, but I couldn't face throwing them away. They were so hard to grow, man. There's a lot of work goes into those things. Some people keep a diary or a photo album to remind them of their past lives - well, I've got hair. Who knows? One day, maybe my grandchildren might want to see it.
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The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut.
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We're a pretty emotional bunch. You know, someone doesn't say hello to you one day and you're like, 'I cannot believe the gall!'
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Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.
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We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.
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Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.
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Just being thought of as a Christian is pretty annoying. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But just being told you're anything when you're not.
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It's always great to see grey hairs in a crowd; people who are older have been to a lot more gigs than the kids; they've seen everything, so seeing them in the crowd means we've earned their applause.
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We're not all Christian, so we can't be a Christian band.
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Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.
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Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.
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I'm a modern-day renaissance man.
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It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.
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Every day is a learning day.
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Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more versatile than people realise it to be. It's a beautiful instrument, very rhythmic and melodic. You can do anything with it.
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It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.
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The New Lost City Ramblers are a very good comparison, actually. They really took the music seriously, and we take the music very seriously. But we don't take ourselves seriously at all.
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I don't understand how those old bands did it. We worked out early on that if we did three gigs in a row and went out afterwards, we'd lose our voices. We know our limits.
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We play the instruments we love.
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Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.
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'Babel' is a continuation of a project; it's not like now we are more theatrical. We've grown up, seen places, been places, and that is shown in this album.