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I love bummer songs.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Bummer
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I just rediscovered my guitar.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Rediscovered
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Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Interesting
Interesting Things
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I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Narrative
Sometimes
Thinking
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I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Spots
Vocalist
Collins
Spot
Phil
Phil Collins
Soft
Soft Spot
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As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Songwriters
Writing
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And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Father
Prayer
Tiny
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I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Baseball
Gun
Player
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My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Memorable
Turns
Phrase
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I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Computer
Lines
Piano
Plans
Vocal
Writing
Samples
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I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Kind
Late
World
Currently
Similar
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I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Bad Habits
Habit
Starting
Want
Habits
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Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Moving
Sound
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To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
God Knows
Knows
Records
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To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Atlantic
Sign
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I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Couple Years
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I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Love
War
Heart
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I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Love Is
Real
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More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Needs
Thinking
Writing
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When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Corners
Moved
Seattle
Difficult Time
Disappeared
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I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Music Song Feel
Wonderful Thing
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The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Chinese
Democracy
Indie Rock
Postal Service
Rocks
Threatening
Album
Indie
Rock
Postal
Second
Service
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I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Covered
Kind
Preconceptions
Song
Thinking
Pop Songs
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There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Land
Mind
Moving
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I love San Francisco more than any other city outside of Seattle, but I've seen it go from a vibrant, creative community to a playground for tech bros.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Bros
San Francisco
Francisco
Playground
San
Tech
Vibrant
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I think there's something that feels so good about a 1-4-5 chord progression. It's a very standard chord progression, and it just feels good to the ears.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Ears
Progression
Good Something Think
Chord
Standard
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I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Earnest
Twirling
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What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Grateful
Aspired
Incredibly
Wildly
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When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're forced to reckon with the passage of time.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Geography
Forced
Passage
Reckon
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At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Regret
Taken
Thinking
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I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Broke
Finding Yourself
Want
Applying
Literally
More And More
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The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Clever
Numbers
Seamless
Song
Songwriting
Complex
Hall
Pass
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Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Girlfriend
Language
Wife
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We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Hindsight
Life Time Reality
Pine
Simpler
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You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Healthy
Please
Self
Thinking
Maintain
Push
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When I'm old, I'd like to wake up in the morning and not really do anything - just be happy to exist. I'd like to look at my accomplishments and sit back and revel in my own achievement.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Achievement
Accomplishments
Be Happy
Just Be
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Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Adulthood
Face Reality
Hang
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We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Kind
Palette
Trying
Time Start New
Explore
Reveal
Sonic
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When I look back at 2003, it was the best year I've ever had creatively: having 'Transatlanctism' and 'Give Up come' out in the course of six months. I'll never have another year like that.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Creatively
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Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Groups
Musical
Satisfying
Song
Diminished
Hall
Incredibly
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I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on. There's no need to veil what's happening in the song the way I used to.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Handful
Veil
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I would much rather hear a song that's written from a fresh perspective, using ideas that have existed in rock & roll for 50 years, than something that is incredibly abrasive to my ears but is new.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Ears
Existed
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I know that the Seattle my parents knew is not the Seattle I know and that these things exist in a state of constant flux and change. The hope is that at least some of that change can be for the better.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Flux
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It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
People Fans New
Push
Recognize
Representative
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I still love 'The Cure' more than almost any other band. But they were really, truly like the first band that I really loved and felt was mine, you know. At a pivotal time in my life when I was 13, 14 years old.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Pivotal
Life Love Time
Cure
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For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Wise
Song
Writing
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Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Feelings
Opposites
People
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People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Faster
Late
People
Time Flies
Will
Really
Now
Talk
Understand
Always
Sure
Get
Become
How
Until
Early
Even
Sort
Flies
Older
Move
Reach
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A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Disappointment
Moving
People
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I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.
Ben Gibbard / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Want
Writing
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