Winston Marshall Quotes
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We're all big fans of bluegrass.
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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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I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.'
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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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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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We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.
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New York - it's the center of the world.
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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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Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.
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Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.
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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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Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments.
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We play the instruments we love.
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We called ourselves Mumford & Sons because we liked the idea of an old-fashioned, family-owned store.
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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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Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.
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Every day is a learning day.
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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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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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I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.
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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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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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'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.
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I'm a modern-day renaissance man.