Hanson Quotes
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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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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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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 know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.
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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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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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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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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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Texas is a pretty free state.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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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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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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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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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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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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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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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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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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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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You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
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I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.