Alex Scally Quotes

• Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

  Alex Scally

  Art, Two, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

  Alex Scally

  Hate, Thinking, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.

  Alex Scally

  Sound, Doe, Size

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We almost don't want to play bigger shows than where we are now. It's kind of perfect.

  Alex Scally

  Perfect, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.

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  Drinking, Light, Feelings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

  Alex Scally

  Art, Different, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Honestly, I hate Facebook - it has nothing on Myspace. I loved how weird and crappy and wild and trashy it was. Then there was the whole culture of pimping out your Myspace page. I remember spending 10 hours one day learning how to make our Myspace page look more like a message board from the mid-90s.

  Alex Scally

  Hate, One Day, Boards

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The shows are the main way our lives have changed.

  Alex Scally

  Changed

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

  Alex Scally

  Hands, Years, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

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  Song, People, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.

  Alex Scally

  Thinking, Years, Next Year

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Music is about your feelings.

  Alex Scally

  Feelings, Music Is

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.

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  Six Months, Stuff, Too Much

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.

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  Fans, Awful, Boring

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.

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  Identity, Band, Losing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The decisions you make can be upsetting to fans. I've experienced that, as a listener, looking at artists I've admired. It's sensitive. We really consider the idea of natural growth versus unnatural leaps.

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  Artist, Decision, Upset

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.

  Alex Scally

  Band, Sometimes, Happens

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has taken a big ad or sync.

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  Taken, Thinking, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's the most dangerous world for bands nowadays because everybody's branding and trying to steal your vibe as soon as you do anything that anyone cares about. It's very weird.

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  Dangerous World, Trying, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things. Sometimes a writer or actor will reach out and make it very personal.

  Alex Scally

  Sometimes, Reach Out

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Artists have to survive.

  Alex Scally

  Artist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.

  Alex Scally

  Beach, Fun, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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