Quotes by Eliot Sumner - Page 1

Music is the only thing that I trust.
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The Only Thing
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I wear a lot of black. Like my heart.
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Black
Wear
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It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you.
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Song
Nice Thing
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I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared!
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Mute
Scared
Quite
Somewhat
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With a band I feel stronger. It's not just me and my weird thoughts.
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Stronger
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I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things.
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Habit
New Things
Creature
New New Things Try
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I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.
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Bored
Picked
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It's always best to challenge yourself and go to a place out of your comfort zone.
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Comfort
Comfort Zone
Zone
Best Always Yourself
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I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.
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Blame
Me Never Young
Recognized
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People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.
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Shadow
Parents People Always
Reference
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It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.
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Nervous
Possessed
Speedy
Stresses
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On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.
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Birthday
Fifth
Fourth
Loud
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I like to move around. It suits me. I grew up in Wiltshire on a farm, and that's the only place I call home.
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Farm
Home Me Place
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I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.
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Sad
Complicated
Same Time
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I'm very shy and awkward; I can't have a normal conversation, and then people think I'm being a bit rude, but really I'm not.
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Rude
Shy
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I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I'm always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford.
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Ebay
Afford
Gear
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I think everyone's got an obstacle in their career that they have to challenge. I think, in a way, that pushes you to prove who you are.
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Obstacle
Pushes
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I can only be myself, and if I have to suffer for that, that's okay, because to pretend to be somebody else - I tried that, it's terrible.
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Okay
Terrible
Pretend
Suffer
Tried
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I think I have a lot of energy, and most of it is quite aggressive energy. But in a positive way, I think. It's like a positive aggression.
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Aggressive
Positive Way
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I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention.
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Attention
Shy
Too Much
Wish
Myself I Am Better
Myself Look I Am
Listener
Speaker
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I'm an extremist. I don't do things in halves. I don't moderate anything. That can be with work or with good things as well. But often, I take it a bit too far.
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Extremist
Good Things
Work Good Anything
Work Good Good Things
Bit
Far
Halves
Moderate
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For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he makes it look so easy when it's not.
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Paul
Paul Simon
Simon
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I knew I wasn't going to write a record as soon as I got signed, because I hadn't had any life experiences. I was still at school, and I wasn't going to write about that.
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Life Experiences
Signed
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Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to find my own style, both in terms of fashion and music.
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Representing
Self Expression
Time Music Me
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I would make documentaries if it was a worthy cause. I have a lot of respect for people who put themselves in harm's way to make people see that something needs to be done.
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Documentaries
Harm
Worthy
Respect People Way
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Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.
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Rely
Self Respect
Self Sufficiency
Life Important My Life
All My Life
Life Parents My Life
Vitally
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I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.
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Attention Span
Spare Time
Time Me Bad
Chore
Span
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I don't particularly like attention. I like to do things on my own. I like to dress myself. People always ask that at shoots: 'Do you want any help?' That's the weirdest question.
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Shoots
Weirdest
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Being Sting's daughter hasn't kicked any doors open for me - he has had absolutely nothing to do with my career. It's all been down to me so far, and that's how I want to keep it.
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Absolutely Nothing
Doors
Sting
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I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.
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Crap
Hendrix
Sibling
Good Music Me
Good Music
Neil
Neil Young
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My French is terrible, and my Spanish is even worse. I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German, it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.
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German
Even Worse
Repeat
Spanish
Whereas
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As a kid, I loved to dress up as Ian Dury and run around hitting people with drumsticks. Members of my family, neighbours, friends, kids at school - no one was safe from my rhythm sticks.
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Hitting
Rhythm
Sticks
Neighbours
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With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.
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Attention Span
Time People Information
Time Information People
Networks
Social Networks
Span
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I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling.
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Abstract
People Feel Song
Song People Way
Interpret
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I write most of my stuff when I'm on a train or a plane, any mode of transport. I like trains because you hear this motoric rhythm and the scenery is great. You go into your own little world. You don't have to be anywhere else.
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Rhythm
Scenery
Great World Your
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Trains
Mode
Plane
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It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.
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Defines
Good Music
Explain
React
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I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.
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Insomnia
Suffer
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I think, forever, I was trying to figure out maybe... what I am. But I don't think anyone should feel pressured to have any kind of label or tag on them. We should treat everybody the same... Me, I don't like to be put down to a specific thing. We're all human beings.
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Pressured
Tag
I Am Me Treat
Label
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In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan - he told me that I might die if I didn't go through with it.
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Dad
Brain
Cat
Might
Die
Accident
Bedside
Suffered
Fractured
Hospital
Refused
Restaurant
Rushed
Scan
Seizure
Skull
Talked
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