Quotes by Dan Bejar

Dan Bejar

Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I’m saying at every single moment.

Moments

People

Single Mom

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

Mean

Starting

I certainly didn’t predict people who spent years actively disliking the band to all of a sudden like the band. That’s pretty funny to me, and it makes playing live kind of interesting, ‘cos we’re doing lots of things that don’t really have a lot to do with that record, and even presenting the songs off that record in a way that’s a little more muscular and without as much of the sheen, which is what I think part of what people really liked [about Kaputt].

Song

Thinking

Years

I don’t banter with the audience, cause I don’t have anything to say to them, and I’m not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I’m on stage.

Causes

Ease

Feelings

I don’t really know what’s going on with the Pornographers – everyone’s kind of doing their own stuff. I mean, they play shows here or there.

Mean

Play

Stuff

I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

Care

Wrestling

Years

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I’m not very good on guitar.

Execution

Guitar

Very Good

I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

Listening

Play

Real

I like playing music. I don’t always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don’t think I’m a natural performer, but I’m getting better.

Feelings

People

Thinking

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

Ideas

Singing

Struggle

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Drunk

Ease

Execution

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Likes

Listening

Mean

Moments

Musician

People

Play

Real

Records

Reflection

Romance

Say Anything

Self

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Singing

Single Mom

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Sound

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Starting

Struggle

Stuff

Thinking

Very Good

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Quotes by Dan Bejar

Dan Bejar

Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I’m saying at every single moment.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

I don’t banter with the audience, cause I don’t have anything to say to them, and I’m not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I’m on stage.

I don’t really know what’s going on with the Pornographers – everyone’s kind of doing their own stuff. I mean, they play shows here or there.

I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I’m not very good on guitar.

I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

I like playing music. I don’t always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don’t think I’m a natural performer, but I’m getting better.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

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