Dan Bejar Quotes

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

  Dan Bejar

  Mean, Starting

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• 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, Pensamiento, Ideas

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

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• 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.

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  Mean, People, Definitions

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Voice, People, Bigs

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

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• 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

  Escribir, Pensar, Voz

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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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

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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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.

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  Real, Play, Listening

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: 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.

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  Single Mom, People, Moments

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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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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• When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction.

  Dan Bejar

  Jumping, Sound, Want

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

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• I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

  Dan Bejar

  Pensamiento, Personas, Sentimientos

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

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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

  Fuente: 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'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.

  Dan Bejar

  Singing, Quiet, Delivery

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

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