Quotes by Ben Gibbard

Ben Gibbard

A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.

Disappointment

Moving

People

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

Father

Prayer

Tiny

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could’ve taken. I don’t think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

Regret

Taken

Thinking

Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters they have to work around. Ten years ago, our reality was spending a lot more time in obscurity before anyone really knew who we were. I don’t feel like I have any real advice to give anybody who is starting a band today. As Mike Watt said, “You know, not everyone has the ability to be born at the same time.” We wanted to be like R.E.M., but the reality is that 15 years after R.E.M. was putting out those records, the playing field had changed drastically as well.

Advice

Giving

Real

Every record we do there are always two camps. There’s the camp that’s like, “I love it. It sounds different than the last one.” There are the people that are like, “I want it to sound like the last one.” 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.

Healthy

People

Thinking

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.

Girlfriend

Language

Wife

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.

Groups

Musical

Song

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.

Habit

Starting

Want

I feel like there’s a lot of beauty in the darkness of ‘Narrow Stairs,’ but that’s not really a place I’m ready to go to for a while. I’m interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone – I’m just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

Dark

Tone

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late ’50s, early ’60s kind of world.

Kind

Late

World

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Airplane

Baseball

Believe

Book

Clever

Dark

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Distance

Earnest

Father

Feelings

Firsts

Girlfriend

Giving

God Knows

Groups

Gun

Habit

Healthy

Heart

Interesting

Interesting Things

Irreverent

Kind

Knows

Language

Late

Love

Love Is

Moving

Musical

Narrative

Needs

Nice

Numbers

Opposites

People

Player

Prayer

Real

Records

Regret

Self

Sometimes

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Starting

Taken

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Quotes by Ben Gibbard

Ben Gibbard

A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could’ve taken. I don’t think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

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.

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.

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.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late ’50s, early ’60s kind of world.

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