Quotes by Robin Pecknold

Robin Pecknold

A label is like a bank with all these really important relationships, and maybe an aesthetic or a point of view. But if you only want to release two songs, you don’t need the guy who can talk to all the retailers, because they’re not going to stock two songs.

Guy

Important

Song

As far as the music being inspired by Seattle, I think it’s in some of the songs. Seattle is a really beautiful place in the right light, it’s perched on a pretty unique geographic setting.

Beautiful

Song

Unique

At the end of the day, for people in this position, you just need to make something that feels like you’re expressing yourself honestly, something that you’d want to listen to. The rest of the aesthetic is kind of bullshit, and I don’t mean that in a negative way – just that it’s a choice.

Bullshit

Mean

People

Being in Portland is cool. I have some good friends here and the general feeling might be a little more welcoming.

Feelings

Good Friend

Welcome

Every time you pick up an instrument, it’s not always out of necessity – for a certain kind of person, it’s a choice.

Choices

Kind

Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.

Foxes

Labels

World

I do read the records reviews but more out of curiosity than anything else, I feel like we know what we want to do next time regardless of how this one is received, good or bad, so it won’t really make much of a difference, which wasn’t the case on the first album, where both the positive and negative criticism or reactions did catch us off guard and inevitably colored the creation of this one.

Criticism

Curiosity

Negative

I don’t know that we’re really going to need a label for the things we’re thinking about doing next.

Thinking

I don’t really hang out with anyone. I’ll hang out with my band … but I don’t have any friends aside from that.

Band

Hanging Out

I like having the vinyl, but it’s not like we’re going to sell an umbrella or something. I don’t like the idea of selling something that’s not music – I mean, I like going to shows and buying the shirt, but beyond that, I don’t know. There’s a lot of crap in the world.

Mean

Vinyl

World

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Abandon

Artist

Band

Beautiful

Believe

Block

Bullshit

Choices

Commitment

Couple

Creative

Creativity

Criticism

Curiosity

Different

Done

Emotional

Energy

Epic

Excited

Exercise

Feelings

Flower

Foxes

Fun

Good Friend

Growing Up

Guy

Hanging Out

Harmony

Important

Intellectual

Kind

Labels

Listening

Looking Forward

Mean

Metallica

Mind

Negative

Next Time

Nice

Opportunity

People

Priorities

Psychedelic

Raised

Selling

Seven

Sometimes

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Quotes by Robin Pecknold

Robin Pecknold

A label is like a bank with all these really important relationships, and maybe an aesthetic or a point of view. But if you only want to release two songs, you don’t need the guy who can talk to all the retailers, because they’re not going to stock two songs.

As far as the music being inspired by Seattle, I think it’s in some of the songs. Seattle is a really beautiful place in the right light, it’s perched on a pretty unique geographic setting.

At the end of the day, for people in this position, you just need to make something that feels like you’re expressing yourself honestly, something that you’d want to listen to. The rest of the aesthetic is kind of bullshit, and I don’t mean that in a negative way – just that it’s a choice.

Being in Portland is cool. I have some good friends here and the general feeling might be a little more welcoming.

Every time you pick up an instrument, it’s not always out of necessity – for a certain kind of person, it’s a choice.

Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.

I don’t know that we’re really going to need a label for the things we’re thinking about doing next.

I don’t really hang out with anyone. I’ll hang out with my band … but I don’t have any friends aside from that.

I like having the vinyl, but it’s not like we’re going to sell an umbrella or something. I don’t like the idea of selling something that’s not music – I mean, I like going to shows and buying the shirt, but beyond that, I don’t know. There’s a lot of crap in the world.

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