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No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.
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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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Texas is a pretty free state.