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Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy Books

Singer-songwriter

Colin Meloy, born on October 5, 1974, is a talented singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the band The Decemberists, which has gained acclaim for its unique folk rock style and narrative songs. Meloy's music blends a variety of musical elements, including folk, rock, classical, and world music, bringing a new voice to the modern music scene.

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“This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.”

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“There's as much benefit to wishing the world away as there is in demanding a bud to bloom," responded Iphigenia as she patted Prue's hand gently. "It's better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.”

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“First, the explosion of life. Then came the celebration. Such as it had been for generations and generations, as long as the eldest of the eldest could remember; as long as the record books had kept steady score. By the time the first buds were edging their green shoots from the dirt, the parade grounds had been cleared and the maypole had been pulled from its exile in the basement of the Mansion. The board had met and the Queen decided; all that was left was the wait. The wait for May.”

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“My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos. It is a hopeless task.”

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“All instruments sound fantastic in a church.”

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“My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.”

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“No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.”

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“When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people”

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“I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.”

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“There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.”

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“Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.”

Should Has Beens Race Expectations Bottom Consumers

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“When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they're doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.”

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“When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.”

People Shows Standards Expectations Buying

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“It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.”

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“I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.”

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“It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.”

Able Song Individual Nice Relief

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“I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.”

Thinking Order Culture Industry Rely Mainstream Mainstream Culture

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“If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.”

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“The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.”

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“I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.”

Thinking Should Song Sentiments

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“Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.”

Style Pops Melody Adopted Pop Music Marrying Upbeat

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“I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.”

Wish Range Dip Tenors Baritones

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“You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.”

Stuff Records Rocks Concepts Punk Associates Punk Rock Pretentiousness

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“I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.”

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“I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.”

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“Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.”

Thinking Way War Influence Band Songwriting Wartime

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“One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.”

Littles Kids Remember Bits One Thing Mystery Baby Little Bit Hanging Out

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“Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.”

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“There's a little less pressure in doing a solo tour, in some ways a simpler setup. A little bit more relaxed. But then also there's also - doing the big tours is exciting, because you get to put on the big show and everything. But I don't know if I would prefer one over the other. I guess it's no secret that I just don't like touring in general, but it's sort of the reality of the business these days.”

Reality Secret Exciting

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“I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.”

Strong Audience Selling Loyal

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“Early on I was a lot more unsure of myself on stage. When our band The Decemberists was getting bigger audiences I was more concerned about alienating them, so I wasn't as willing to take risks and do weird stuff on stage. But once you get more accustomed to it you tend to have more fun with it and not worry about being pilloried for acting out. Whenever you play in front of 400 or 500 more people than you're used to it's always a weird, transitional period.”

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“I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. It has just as much power in creating a kind of perpendicular sentiment in the music, creating a nice friction that also plays up some of the tension in the song.”

Thinking Kind Song Nice Tension Sentiments

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“We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.”

World Heart Children Pain Beautiful Order Universe Moral Break Wonderful Mystery Goodness Chaos Wide Indifferent Imposing Beautiful World Wonderful World

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“It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.”

World Share Fragile Coexistence

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“As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.”

Saint Patron Nancy Benediction Nancy Drew

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“And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.”

Trying Heart Home Fiction Written Pages Bones

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“An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.”

Cups Bells Adages Bandits

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About the Author

Born: October 5, 1974
Known for: Singer-songwriter
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