Belle and Sebastian Quotes
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We were staying in this smart apartment complex which we thought was this little artistic community. There were some lads on location for a movie. We saw them every day, always filming in the same room. It only dawned on us on the last day that this was the bedroom and the film was a porno.
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I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.
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In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the record. We used to do it all by ourselves. I just don't really want to do it anymore. I want somebody to do it for me. I want to concentrate on other things. That's been a big change, a learning curve. But no regrets, it's all part of life's rich tapestry.
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It's kind of sun-bleached and psychedelic, with a little bit of folk or country.
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I thought, 'you're on tour leading a crazy life right now, but you've just asked me to make an album and I'm going to hold you to that'. He was really encouraging, which is nice because I doubt myself often.
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Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.
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The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.
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Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.
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I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.
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I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.
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I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.
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Once, when I got some of the songs back from him, it was around Christmas time, and it was the best Christmas present I could have wished for -- really, really exciting.