Ben Gibbard Quotes:- Ben Gibbard (born August 11, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded ten studio albums, and as a member of the indie pop band The Postal Service. Gibbard released his debut solo album, Former Lives, in 2012, and a collaborative studio album, One Fast Move or I’m Gone (2009) with Jay Farrar.
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“My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.”
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“People always talk about how time flies; it’s become sort of a colloquialism now. You don’t really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s – and I’m sure time will move even faster as I get older.”
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“I don’t want to be overdramatic about it, but I’m starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.”
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“It’s like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.”
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“For ‘Narrow Stairs’, the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs – songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.”
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“Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you’re able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.”
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“I just rediscovered my guitar.”
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“I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to the late ’50s, early ’60s kind of world.”
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“The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you’re listening to the song because they’re so seamless and clever.”
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“What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it’s had.”
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“When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you’re forced to reckon with the passage of time.”
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“When I’m old, I’d like to wake up in the morning and not really do anything – just be happy to exist. I’d like to look at my accomplishments and sit back and revel in my own achievement.”
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“Death Cab always gets the right of first refusal on everything I write, but I tend to know early on. There’s a song that has yet to be released – it might come to light at some point in the near future – that when I was writing it, I was really proud of it lyrically.”
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“You can’t please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.”
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“When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.”
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“I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.”
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“I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of ‘Plans’ came out of samples and vocal lines.”
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“It’s trippy to think we have an album that’s 10 years old. It’s even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.”
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“I’ve always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He’s a great vocalist.”
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“I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn’t get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don’t even want.”
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“Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There’s something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.”
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“We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren’t necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn’t.”
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“I know that the Seattle my parents knew is not the Seattle I know and that these things exist in a state of constant flux and change. The hope is that at least some of that change can be for the better.”
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“At some point, I thought that, as I got older, I’d come to terms with a lot of things. I’d solve some big problems, and eventually, I’d become content. It’s almost more depressing to think that the older you get, the more your problems multiply.”
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“I would much rather hear a song that’s written from a fresh perspective, using ideas that have existed in rock & roll for 50 years, than something that is incredibly abrasive to my ears but is new.”
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“I’ve written a lot of songs in the last couple of years, but writing a lot of songs doesn’t always mean writing good songs.”
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“I love bummer songs.”
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“I’m not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on a radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kinds of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who’s not a baseball player.”
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“When I look back at 2003, it was the best year I’ve ever had creatively: having ‘Transatlanctism’ and ‘Give Up come’ out in the course of six months. I’ll never have another year like that.”
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“To set the record straight for the God knows the millionth time, we certainly didn’t sign to Atlantic just for the money.”
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“The second ‘Postal Service’ album is threatening to become the ‘Chinese Democracy’ of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won’t.”
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“I’ve covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don’t think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.”
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“As a songwriter, I’m not necessarily writing about myself or my life.”
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“I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on. There’s no need to veil what’s happening in the song the way I used to.”
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“I love San Francisco more than any other city outside of Seattle, but I’ve seen it go from a vibrant, creative community to a playground for tech bros.”
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“I read ‘On The Road’ in college. I was 18 or 19, and I had a particular quarter where I was taking biology, calculus, and physics. Those were my three classes. It wasn’t a well-rounded schedule at all. It was hard, hard work, all the time – hours and hours and hours of homework.”
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“I think there’s something that feels so good about a 1-4-5 chord progression. It’s a very standard chord progression, and it just feels good to the ears.”
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“If you’re going through a difficult time, and there’s a piece of music that speaks to you – be it musically or lyrically or both – you are almost always able to access that music. You’re always able to sit down with it.”
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“I still love ‘The Cure more than almost any other band. But they were really, truly like the first band that I really loved and felt was mine, you know. At a pivotal time in my life when I was 13, 14 years old.”
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“We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.”
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