Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

• I think summer, at least as I've experienced it, can be joyous but it can also be tough emotionally. Physically, it can be hot to the point of being unbearable and I think you want to capture that frustration, but also the release.

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  Summer, Thinking, Frustration

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• There's a line in the Arthur Russell documentary where his partner talks about how Arthur is really interested in process. He never felt like anything was finished, and he would even work on things after they'd been released. I definitely relate to that.

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  Arthur

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• Obviously it always takes longer to finish an album than you think it will. That's always going to be the case. Everything takes longer than you think it will. Occasionally things happen fast.

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  Thinking, Things Happen

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• I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something special about 'Young Lion'. It's pretty different from any song that we've had before because the vocals are kind of between two different very simple instrumental piano melodies and it's almost like something that we call a vignette, it's sort of like a miniature.

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  Song, Simple, Thinking

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• I guess I have some kind of a visceral connection with drums. I'm looking to create music that people can react to viscerally, and people will respond to viscerally. I think that you can listen to music, to a song you've never heard before and not really like it, but also feel like you're responding to it physically whether you like it or not. I think that's a powerful aspect about music, and I think that's something that draws me to drums.

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  Canción, Potente, Pensamiento

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• Sin embargo, tomé clases de guitarra cuando era adolescente y empecé a aprender a tocar todo lo que podía tocar en la guitarra en el piano, así que tuve un camino muy raro y no tradicional para llegar a ser competente. Creo que probablemente me ayudó a ver las cosas desde un nuevo ángulo.

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  Teenager, Thinking, Teach

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• I like the idea that a song can be about a romantic relationship, but it can also about a relationship to your career, or a relationship to your city. It can be about a person, but at the same time it can be about a situation.

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  Song, Situation, Romantic Relationship

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• It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

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  Mind, Sometimes

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• Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats. I was starting to learn the signifiers of production from the '60s, the '80s. We never re-recorded anything. All the record companies that wanted to sign us - except for one - were excited about the recordings that we had done ourselves.

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  Song, College, Get Better

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• As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn't feel happy. I think I had some existential frustration and I was wrestling with that on a few different levels. I was feeling like I wanted to change a lot of things.

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  Wrestling, Frustration, Thinking

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• I wanted to make an album where every song is kind of interacting - where you can't tell what's the string arrangement and what's the song. I guess that came out of going to college, majoring in music, studying classical music, and even as a kid, being really drawn to classical music.

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  Song, Kids, College

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• It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.

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  Feel Good, Various

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• En algún momento decidí que no quería aprender más técnica de guitarra. Estaba en ese nivel en el que la siguiente montaña que había que escalar era Van Halen y realmente no me gustaba Van Halen.

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  Mountain, Van Halen

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• I was lucky to have a guitar teacher who asked me what I wanted to learn. I brought in "High & Dry" by Radiohead and "Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows and he was like, "Alright, I'm gonna teach you these, but you're also gonna learn some stuff that I want you to learn." He taught me Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, so I was getting the technical stuff and the fun stuff.

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  Teacher, Fun, Crow

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• I took one piano lesson and hated it and then didn't take any piano lessons until I was 18.

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  Odiaba

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• I would say I was a little bit outgoing, a little bit shy. I was definitely much more shy than my brother. I was young - age six. I was really drawn to music because my brother started playing instruments and I wanted to be at his level, even though I was younger.

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  Brother, Age, Shy

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• Mis padres abandonaron Irán en 1979, se trasladaron a Francia y luego a Estados Unidos. Mi hermano nació en Francia y yo en New York. Creo que mis padres se fueron de Francia porque pensaban que sus hijos nunca serían aceptados por la cultura francesa. Aquí pensaron que podríamos sentirnos estadounidenses, que podríamos sentirnos seguros en ese sentido, lo que era importante para ellos, dadas sus experiencias en Irán. Solían bromear diciendo que yo podría ser presidente porque era el único nacido en Estados Unidos.

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  Brother, Kids, Thinking

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• I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn't do it with my own songs. It took that moment of pointing the camera at myself to realize that it was okay to get lost in making my own music. I think before that I was scared of pushing myself to the point of staring into the abyss.

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  Song, Thinking, Scared

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• 'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

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  Song, Believe, Reason

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• We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

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  Band, Said, Knows

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• I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.

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  Song, Ideas, Persons

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• I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she's a joy to work with. She's fab at singing and she has a real... she has an understanding that's both intellectual and emotional about singing, that I think that very few people have.

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  Real, Angel, Emotional

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• Now that that album's done [TModern Vampires of the City], I have time to revisit things that I was working on earlier, previous to it. I actually found it very helpful to be working on some music on my own.

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  Cities, Vampire, Albums

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• Una de las cosas de las que hablamos fue de la idea de "Memento Mori", como el recordatorio de nuestra propia mortalidad, y así intentamos expresarlo en nuestras fotos de prensa. También es uno de los temas del álbum [Modern Vampires of the City].

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  Cities, Ideas, Vampire

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• We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.

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  Powerful, Humorous, Cities

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