Colin Meloy Quotes
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I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.
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We actually have been toying around with a theatrical element. We even had outfits that we wore on stage for the last tour. But I think when people come to see us they ultimately expect a rock show, so we're pulling back on that aspect a bit. We do play in front of a backdrop, though.
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No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.
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Sometimes, when the world is falling apart around you, all that's left to do is dance, right?
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When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they're doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.
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I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.
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As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.
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When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people
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The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.
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You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.
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An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
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I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.
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It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.
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And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...
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I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.
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It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
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I just saw her. She was so … alive.
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One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.
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There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.
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Meloy's balladry brings to mind vaudeville, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, 'Sweeney Todd,' the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Kurt Weill and Nick Cave, 1960s psychedelic rock pop and roaring pub sing-alongs.
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Look at the leader of my country, he is somebody I cannot relate to at all. He is so far removed from me - politically, personally and morally.
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Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.
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Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
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I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.