Hanson Quotes
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I'm a proud family man.
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The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing.
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I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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In some ways, Australian fans are more dedicated and more enthusiastic than some of our most loyal fans in the U.S.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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We've always believed in our music.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.