Quotes by Dan Mangan

Dan Mangan

Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.

Break

Enjoy Life

Lucky

And sometimes you just have to trust that there will be more, sometimes you go through dry spells and you have to assure yourself “no no, it’s gonna be fine. There’s gonna be more songs, it’s all good.

Dry

Sometimes

Song

Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that’s obviously really exciting. But what’s most exciting is the idea that we’re all experiencing something that’s bigger than us.

Cheer

Ideas

People

I can predict with some sense of certainty how life will feel in a month. I can with the same logic remember with the same element of reality or truth what life was like a month ago. All perspectives on the past are entirely relative.

Past

Perspective

Reality

I don’t believe in the myth of the “self made man”. Nobody gets through alone.

Believe

Men

Self

I don’t necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I’m in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

Book

Reading

Thinking

I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to digest all the things around me. Once I put thoughts into a song, I can let it go, it doesn’t bug me anymore you know what I mean? It’s kind of a catharsis.

Important

Mean

Song

I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that’s what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don’t feel complicated.

House

Kids

Phones

I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would just put the pen down and walk away, and wait for it to come back. But these days, I have a kid, I tour a lot, and I’m always short on time.

Feelings

Kids

Waiting

I miss that moment when you’re about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you’re trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you’re slowing down the herd.

Missing

People

Style

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Alive

Art

Artist

Believe

Book

Break

Bullshit

Character

Cheer

Cities

Country

Couple

Crazy

Daughter

Dry

Embrace

Enjoy Life

Fantasy

Father

Feelings

Fun

Goal

Greed

Growing Up

Halos

Hopeful

House

Ideas

Important

Iphone

Issues

Kids

Looks

Lucky

Mean

Men

Missing

Moments

Mother

Muse

Okay

Old Things

Past

People

Perspective

Phones

Purpose

Reading

Reality

Self

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Quotes by Dan Mangan

Dan Mangan

Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.

And sometimes you just have to trust that there will be more, sometimes you go through dry spells and you have to assure yourself “no no, it’s gonna be fine. There’s gonna be more songs, it’s all good.

Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that’s obviously really exciting. But what’s most exciting is the idea that we’re all experiencing something that’s bigger than us.

I can predict with some sense of certainty how life will feel in a month. I can with the same logic remember with the same element of reality or truth what life was like a month ago. All perspectives on the past are entirely relative.

I don’t believe in the myth of the “self made man”. Nobody gets through alone.

I don’t necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I’m in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to digest all the things around me. Once I put thoughts into a song, I can let it go, it doesn’t bug me anymore you know what I mean? It’s kind of a catharsis.

I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that’s what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don’t feel complicated.

I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would just put the pen down and walk away, and wait for it to come back. But these days, I have a kid, I tour a lot, and I’m always short on time.

I miss that moment when you’re about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you’re trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you’re slowing down the herd.

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