“I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.”
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Famous Dan Bejar Quotes
“I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.”
“There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.”
“I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.”
“I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.”
“I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.”
“I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.”
“Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.”
“I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer.”
“The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.”
“Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.”