Colin Meloy Quotes

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• An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

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  Bells, Cups, Bandits

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• We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

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  Beautiful, Children, Pain

  "Wildwood". Book by Colin Meloy, August 30, 2011.

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• I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

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  Strong, Loyal, Selling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

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  Home, Heart, Trying

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• I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

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  People, Lines, Want

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

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  Rocks, Stuff, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

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  People, Lines, Draws

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• As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

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  Saint, Nancy, Benediction

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• It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

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  World, Share, Fragile

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• My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.

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  Mother, Father, War

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• When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they're doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.

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  People, Hustle, Attention

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.

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  Ambitious, Kind, Advent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

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  Baby, Kids, Littles

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

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  Race, Expectations, Should

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

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  People, Expectations, Buying

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people

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  Song, Hurt, Writing

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• I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.

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  Thinking, Order, Mainstream Culture

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

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  Song, Nice, Relief

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. It has just as much power in creating a kind of perpendicular sentiment in the music, creating a nice friction that also plays up some of the tension in the song.

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  Song, Nice, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.

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  Song, Guitar, Stuff

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• Early on I was a lot more unsure of myself on stage. When our band The Decemberists was getting bigger audiences I was more concerned about alienating them, so I wasn't as willing to take risks and do weird stuff on stage. But once you get more accustomed to it you tend to have more fun with it and not worry about being pilloried for acting out. Whenever you play in front of 400 or 500 more people than you're used to it's always a weird, transitional period.

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  Fun, People, Worry

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

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  Church, Sound, Fantastic

  "Colin Meloy Interview Transcript". Interview with Luke Baumgarten, www.inlander.com. October 20, 2005.

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• There's a little less pressure in doing a solo tour, in some ways a simpler setup. A little bit more relaxed. But then also there's also - doing the big tours is exciting, because you get to put on the big show and everything. But I don't know if I would prefer one over the other. I guess it's no secret that I just don't like touring in general, but it's sort of the reality of the business these days.

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  Reality, Secret, Exciting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.

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  Attitude, College, People

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• Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

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  War, Thinking, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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