Portugal. The Man Quotes
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I think we're pretty spiritual people, the band in general. We're not a bunch of hippies or anything like that, but we like to work together and work with people. We believe that positive energy is pretty necessary in life, although it's not always easy to maintain.
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My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some just really amazing places.
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I've never been the type of person that puts things on a shelf or, like, needs to clean my sneakers every day. I just wear what I like.
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As much as we love an excuse to dress up, the red carpet is not the place.
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When I was in high school and first starting to drive by myself, I listened to Wu Tang in the car, and I recognized their soul and R&B roots.
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I see a lot of people say you just make the music you wanna make and just love what you do, and that is what we do, but I wanna write the best songs we can.
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Poor Ron Paul. He means well. He really does. But there's something about him. I don't know what it is. From falling victim to Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno to that old-man shuffle, he just seems like kind of a... like kind of a sissy.
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It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.
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I feel like rock n' roll has become very tame.
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I grew up in Alaska, okay? My dad graduated high school and went straight to the mountains. He had $300 and staked a claim. He didn't even have enough to put a title on the land: just had the records that he bought before he moved.
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Right after we recorded 'Satanic Satanist' and 'American Ghetto' here in Boston, we decided we'd grow our hair out. This is - was - like the Beatles thing. I wanted to see these pictures later in life.
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Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.
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There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.
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I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.
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My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.
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We've always done what we do, and we go out and try and get better with each record we make.
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Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.
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Levis are my go-to. Plain crew necks and jeans.
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To me, sci-fi has the most amazing style.
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Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.
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I feel like every album we make, that's our debut album.
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As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.
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My first concert was Pantera.
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We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.