Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Every record we do there are always two camps. There's the camp that's like, "I love it. It sounds different than the last one." There are the people that are like, "I want it to sound like the last one." You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Ben Gibbard's Popular Quotes

Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters they have to work around. Ten years ag…

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I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

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At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a s…

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I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

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You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writi…

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And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

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Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

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Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love d…

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