“My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.” Quote by Ben Watt
“I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.” PeopleThinkingFirstsTogetherMovingYoungLeftAudienceBandBenefitsAlbumsPopsCoreVotersFourthFloatingShrinksPop Music Author:Ben Watt
“I think you have to start taking a few risks and sometimes they don't pay off.” ThinkingSometimesPayRisk Author:Ben Watt
“I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which to write, but actually the things that strike people about music, are very hard to write about, and its sonic connections, it's a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don't know how to express it - it's something musical, it's synapse connections in our brain.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsWritingHardLanguageBrainKnow HowConnectionsHarmonyMusicalStrikesJournalismGenre Author:Ben Watt
“People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.” PeopleIfsThinkingDifferentBetrayalAuthenticity Author:Ben Watt
“I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.” FeelsDoneArtistCareersStage Author:Ben Watt
“I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.” HomeCitiesTownsIsolatedComplaintsHome Town Author:Zach Condon
“I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.” I CanStudentsLifestyleHated Author:Zach Condon
“The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much noise as I wanted. By the time I moved out, I had a full-sized piano, two full-sized organs, bits and pieces of a drum kit, and a whole computer set up for Pro Tools. I had this mattress in between the piano and the organ. That was the only walking room.” TwoEndsWholeWantedHouseBitsRoomsPiecesWalkingComputerToolsMovedNoisePianoOrgansBits And PiecesMattresses Author:Zach Condon
“My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.” KnowsKindWantedThreeHoursMemoriesPracticePlayerBrotherDadRaisedGuitarMy DadHatedObsessedMy BrotherSpiteTrumpetsGuitar Player Author:Zach Condon
“I tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on the first day, and they told us to write about what we did over the summer. I can't remember exactly, but I think I walked out exactly at that point and went to the office to ask for my money back.” ThinkingWritingFirstsI CanStoriesRememberAsksCommunityClassCollegeOfficeSummerCommunity CollegeFunny StoryEnglish Class Author:Zach Condon
