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Travis Morrison Biography

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Travis Morrison is a professional in an unknown field, born on December 16, 1972. His biography and contributions are limited due to insufficient information.

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“I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.”

Littles Kids Wanted Songwriting Little Kid Guitarist

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“There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Records Terrible Band

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“I'm fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don't ever hear them talk about it as a "career." It almost makes me think there isn't even a music industry anymore, like an atom bomb fell and it was just eradicated forever.”

Thinking Attitude Careers Forever Rocks Industry Band Making Money Bombs Atoms Fascinated Music Industry Rock Bands Atom Bomb

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“At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.”

Long Play Jobs Certain Easy Realizing Sells Guitar Rest Of Your Life Day Jobs

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“If a band isn't coming up with two to four of those when they pick up their instruments, then they have problems - even if none of them turn into a song. If that's not happening in a band, it's time for therapy or breaking up.”

Ifs Two Problem Song Turns Four Band Happenings Picks Instruments Therapy

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“I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're always a surprise to me.”

Minutes Style Basketball Surprise

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“I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.”

Ifs Writing Kind States Dream Games Morning Coffee Stimulants

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“I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.”

People Ifs Feels Trying Art Lucky Art Is Patient Pops Be Patient

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“I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.”

Writing Said Saws Interviews

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“I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.”

Writing Technique Workshops Writing Workshop

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“I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.”

Ifs Writing Trying Sometimes Blow Tricks Drawers Variance

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“Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."”

Knows Want Needs Real Sometimes Helping Guy Ego Yeah Impress This Guy

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“When you wrote a song way back in the day, you were writing material to play live. And you would buy the CD at the shows if you like the show. You may not listen to the CD, you might just throw it in the back of your car and let it warp in the sun. The main thing was you saw the song at the show.”

Ifs Way Writing May Play Shows Might Song Sun Saws Car Materials Cds Back In The Day Warp

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“Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.”

People Ends Media Strange Materials Theory Musician Visuals Youtube

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“There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"”

Want Ends Play Song Half Worst Thumbs Youtube New Songs Groaning Thumbs Down

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“There was no indie rock band in the 90s at the level of, like, Grizzly Bear. I listen to their records and it's crazy how good they sound. That really freaks me out.”

Sound Levels Records Crazy Rocks Bears Band Freak Rock Bands Grizzlies Indie Rock Grizzly Bears

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“I'm a grown-ass man. I can't be, like, ordering people to put down their phones.”

People Men I Can Phones Ass

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“I like to go play shows just to see people, so I'm not in the game of like, "You're at my show, you're gonna listen to it like this, blah blah blah."”

People Play Shows Games Like You Blah

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“I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what they do and then leaving. I like attention, but it actually gives me a little less to work with as a performer if people are editing themselves and not being them.”

People Ifs Giving Littles Rooms Attention Wall Musician Give Me Leaving Performers Editing

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“Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.”

People Enough Advice Terrible Smart

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Born: December 16, 1972
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Quotes: 20

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