Hanson Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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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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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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When you become a band and you've got people who want to be a part of your experience or want to get close to you for what you are, not who you are, you have that challenge of trying to find out who's genuine.
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Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.