Hanson Quotes
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'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
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It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.
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Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
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I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'
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I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.
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I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.
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Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.
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What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.
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It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'
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People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.
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It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.
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I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.