Mumford & Sons Quotes
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I don't understand how those old bands did it. We worked out early on that if we did three gigs in a row and went out afterwards, we'd lose our voices. We know our limits.
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I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
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If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.
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Every day is a learning day.
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I regret a couple of wardrobe decisions.
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When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.
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'Babel' is a continuation of a project; it's not like now we are more theatrical. We've grown up, seen places, been places, and that is shown in this album.
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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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I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.
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Every band I've come across has read more than I have.
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It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.
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The New Lost City Ramblers are a very good comparison, actually. They really took the music seriously, and we take the music very seriously. But we don't take ourselves seriously at all.
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Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.
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We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.
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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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You're always thinking about making new music.
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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 became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.
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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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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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We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.
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I don't even call myself a Christian.
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Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.
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The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.