Mumford & Sons Quotes
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I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.
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A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.
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The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself.
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I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.
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We're not all Christian, so we can't be a Christian band.
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I'm a modern-day renaissance man.
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If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.
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A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.
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Every band I've come across has read more than I have.
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It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.
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I regret a couple of wardrobe decisions.
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'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story.
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Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.
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I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.
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I don't even call myself a Christian.
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It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.
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Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.
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You're always thinking about making new music.
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We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.
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We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.
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The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.
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Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... it's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town.
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I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.
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Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.