Quotes by Ed O'brien - Page 1

We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Bunch
Weird
Disparate
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Country
Fantastic
Fantasy
Foreign
Foreign Country
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Endless
Tvs
Watches
Press
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Morning
Tired
Mornings
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Band
Massive
Tasks
Task
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We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Band
Fame
Kind
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Confidence
Smile
Desire
Hard Work
Thinking
Helped
Work Hard
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Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Constant
Serious
Forward
Motion
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Children
Firsts
Singles
Way
Music New Way
Thrilled
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Aspire
Bowie
Musician
Painter
Thom
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Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Emotion
Feelings
The End Of The Day
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But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Kids
Fans
First Time
Leap
Sound
Album
Heads
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Arena
Computer
Ends
Arenas
Occasionally
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Disappointed
Time Me Go
Tour
Worldwide
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So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Journey
Albums
Records
Album
Regardless
Tour
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Chords
Computer
Long
Realised
Stuff
Time Long Long Time
Weird
Chord
Time Weird Long
Ok
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What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
Ed O'brien / Musician
People
Refreshing
Separating
Thinking
Business Music People
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Neil
Regular
Regular People
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We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Band
Different
People
Radiohead
Different People
Filtering
Whoever
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There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Breathe
Discussion
Receptive
Cd
Ear
Minute
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We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Bored
Hate
Hated
Thinking
Tired
By The Time
Human Being
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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Wise
Considering
Managers
Album
Cleared
Suggested
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If you want something good to come out of something, you have to put in a lot of effort. That involves a lot of hard work, and a lot of blood, sweat and tears sometimes. No different to anything, no different to what we all do.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Blood
Hard Work
Sweat
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Drink
Interesting
Ireland
Play
Proportion
Special
Things Happen
Anybody Else
For Example
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Balance
Evening
New Songs
Play
Song
Thinking
Approximately
Concert
Piece
Reaction
Third
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
Ed O'brien / Musician
Rough
Rough Times
Weeks
Time Long Past
In The Past
Material
Studio
Recorded
Seemed
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