Isaac Hanson Quotes
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'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.
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I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.
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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
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The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.
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For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.
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We have a good time and try not to kill each other.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
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I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'
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It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'
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I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.
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The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
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Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.