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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Bells
Broken
Fun
Music Me Fun
Reminds
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I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Stuck
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Mock
Soundtracks
Dorm
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I find that the kinds of music I’m drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Granted
Kind
People
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I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Granted
Music People Find
Drawn
Take For Granted
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Rome
Change Always Me
Change Me People
Change Things
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Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Daft
Punk
Normally
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I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Artist
Believe
Crazy
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Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Artist
Spots
Sweet
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If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Figures
Ifs
Kind
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Discover
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Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Challenges
Moving
People
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Ideas
Wind
Turning
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No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Matter
Passion
People
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After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Grey
Remix
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I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Dorm Rooms
Dorms
Rooms
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I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Dorm
Producing
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When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Good Times
Quitting
Thinking
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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Long
Realizing
Shame
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Quitting
Time Good Music
Something Else
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What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Band
Done
World
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The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Enough
Musician
Position
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A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Albums
People
Want
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I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Classic
Sad Me People
Sad Me Song
Search
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Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Bunch
Great People
Cool Work Great
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I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Melodies
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If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Art
People
Talking
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In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Morning
Mean
Thinking
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I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"
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Band
People
Wake Up
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When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Different Things
Love Is
Visions
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If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Believe
Thinking
Years
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I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Computers
Boards
Hearing
Instruments
Mixing
Work Always More
Engineer
Hands-On
Super
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.
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Listening
People
Years
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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.
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Amazingly
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Space
Artist
Impress
Mess
Opinionated
Trying
Edit
Just Be
Producer
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All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.
Danger Mouse / Musician
Mean
Night
School
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