Paul Banks Quotes
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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Musically, I always wanted to experiment.
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I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?
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I wanted to play baseball!
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The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.
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The idea of a band nowadays is 5 pretty boys, one with a tattoo, one with a shaved head, and on and on. What the fuck is that? I mean, I like Britney Spears, I think she's pretty, but I'm not from the Mickey Mouse Club-I'm from the Godzilla Club!
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The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
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I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I listen to some of my old stuff, I can tell when I had a good idea, but I forced it through, and I can hear myself - the bit that I've written, which sounds clunkier than the stuff that just sort of comes.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
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We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.
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I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.
