Mumford & Sons Quotes
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We called ourselves Mumford & Sons because we liked the idea of an old-fashioned, family-owned store.
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If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.
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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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Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.
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I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.
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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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'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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You're always thinking about making new music.
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Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.
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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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'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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It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.
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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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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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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 became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.
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We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.
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I don't even call myself a Christian.
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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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The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.