Dan Bejar Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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

  Dan Bejar

  Wrestling, Years, Care

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• 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.

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• I certainly didn't predict people who spent years actively disliking the band to all of a sudden like the band. That's pretty funny to me, and it makes playing live kind of interesting, 'cos we're doing lots of things that don't really have a lot to do with that record, and even presenting the songs off that record in a way that's a little more muscular and without as much of the sheen, which is what I think part of what people really liked [about Kaputt].

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Thinking, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I actually do see rock and roll as pop music. I think the distinction I was making was that I was going out of my way to have a very consistent approach to production, where nothing kind of punctures the reality - or, I guess, the fake reality - of the album and what you're listening to from beginning to end.

  Dan Bejar

  Reality, Thinking, Rocks

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

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• 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

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• Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I'm saying at every single moment.

  Dan Bejar

  Single Mom, People, Moments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It never really interested me in the past but, for the first time, I wanted to make a pop record. I thought a good way of doing it would be to make songs that didn't really make sense to me as songs; songs that I couldn't just sit down and play in front of someone and then get them to play over it.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Past, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

  Dan Bejar

  Reflection, Thinking, Self

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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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