Mumford & Sons Quotes
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It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.
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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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The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself.
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I'm a modern-day renaissance man.
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I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.
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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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I regret a couple of wardrobe decisions.
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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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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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The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.
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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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If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.
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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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Every band I've come across has read more than I have.
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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 think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they hide their mistakes with the distortion.
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We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.
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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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It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.
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I don't even call myself a Christian.
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We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.
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You're always thinking about making new music.
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You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.
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I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.