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 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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Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.
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I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60.
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I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.
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If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie.
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I'm in love with a lot of things. Some of those things love me back. And some of them don't - and one of them is Radiohead.
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I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.
