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Ben Gibbard quotes

American Musician August 11, 1976

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Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together. Ben Gibbard
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. Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard quote: "I love bummer songs."
I love bummer songs. Ben Gibbard
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. Ben Gibbard
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. Ben Gibbard
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. Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard quote: "As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or..."
As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life. Ben Gibbard
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. Ben Gibbard
I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player. Ben Gibbard
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. Ben Gibbard
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. Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard quote: "I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to..."
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. Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard quote: "To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time,..."
To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money. Ben Gibbard
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. Ben Gibbard
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. Ben Gibbard

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