Dan Bejar Quotes

Canada, Singer
October 4, 1972

Daniel Bejar is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. Bejar is known for his musical collaborations with Vancouver indie rock band The New Pornographers, and has released material as the frontman of his band Destroyer. He is known for his poetic and often cryptic lyrics as well as his unorthodox vocals. In 2006, he joined with Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes and Spencer Krug of Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade as part of indie supergroup Swan Lake. He has also collaborated with his girlfriend Sydney Hermant as the duo Hello, Blue Roses, whose debut album was released in 2008.

Also known as Songwriter

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.

Dan Bejar
- People
- Voice
- Bigs
I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Dan Bejar
- Music
- Like
- Putting

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

Dan Bejar
Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

Dan Bejar
- Feel
- Explore
- Melody
I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

Dan Bejar
- People
- Thinking
- Real
Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.

Dan Bejar
- Song
- Kind
- Behinds
The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

Dan Bejar
- Musician
- Become
- Singers
I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

Dan Bejar
- Music
- Always
- Lyrics

People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.

Dan Bejar
I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

Dan Bejar
- People
- Mean
- Audience