Dan Bejar Quotes

Quotes about:

• I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

  Dan Bejar

  Mean, Starting

  8 Copy quote

• The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

  Dan Bejar

  Ideas, Musician, Singers

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

  Dan Bejar

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

• I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

  Dan Bejar

  Mean, People, Definitions

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12,2012.

  8 Copy quote

• Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

  Dan Bejar

  Important, Quitting, Like You

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

  Dan Bejar

  Feelings, Ease, Causes

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  8 Copy quote

• Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.

  Dan Bejar

  Voice, People, Bigs

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

• People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.

  Dan Bejar

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

• I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

  Dan Bejar

  Mean, Kids, Garden

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

• I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

  Dan Bejar

  Rocks, Expression, Names

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

• Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

  Dan Bejar

  Labels, Records, Agents

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview With Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

• Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Romance, Splits

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

  Dan Bejar

  Writing, Conscious, Pacing

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

  Dan Bejar

  Writing, Musician, Causes

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."

  Dan Bejar

  Reflection, Thinking, Self

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, Roles, Singers

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

  Dan Bejar

  Struggle, Ideas, Singing

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

  Dan Bejar

  Guitar, Execution, Very Good

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, Fire, Band

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

  Dan Bejar

  Waste, Likes, Wonder

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

• I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, Rocks, Storm

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

• I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

  Dan Bejar

  Real, Play, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

• I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

  Dan Bejar

  Wrestling, Years, Care

  4 Copy quote

• There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.

  Dan Bejar

  Records, Destroyers, Left

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin