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Artists have to survive.
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Music is about your feelings.
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Feelings
Music Is
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The shows are the main way our lives have changed.
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Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.
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Band
Happens
Sometimes
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All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.
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Band
Identity
Losing
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I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.
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Band
Hate
Thinking
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We almost don't want to play bigger shows than where we are now. It's kind of perfect.
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Kind
Perfect
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It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.
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Awful
Boring
Fans
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Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.
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Art
Different
Two
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Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.
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Doe
Size
Sound
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A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.
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Listening
People
Song
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I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has taken a big ad or sync.
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Band
Taken
Thinking
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The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.
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Next Year
Thinking
Years
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I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.
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Beach
Fun
People
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Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.
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Art
Different
Way
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We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things. Sometimes a writer or actor will reach out and make it very personal.
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Reach Out
Sometimes
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When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.
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Drinking
Feelings
Light
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It's the most dangerous world for bands nowadays because everybody's branding and trying to steal your vibe as soon as you do anything that anyone cares about. It's very weird.
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Band
Dangerous World
Trying
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There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.
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Six Months
Stuff
Too Much
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The decisions you make can be upsetting to fans. I've experienced that, as a listener, looking at artists I've admired. It's sensitive. We really consider the idea of natural growth versus unnatural leaps.
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Artist
Decision
Upset
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It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.
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Hands
Ideas
Years
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Honestly, I hate Facebook - it has nothing on Myspace. I loved how weird and crappy and wild and trashy it was. Then there was the whole culture of pimping out your Myspace page. I remember spending 10 hours one day learning how to make our Myspace page look more like a message board from the mid-90s.
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Boards
Hate
One Day
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