Ed Robertson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.
-- Ed Robertson

#Rocks #People #Band
I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.
-- Ed Robertson

#Song #Writing #People
I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.
-- Ed Robertson

#Fans #Band #Machines
You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single.
-- Ed Robertson

#Song #Two #Track
I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.
-- Ed Robertson

#Party #Beer #Goes On
We have multi-generations coming to our show.
-- Ed Robertson

#Generations #Shows
People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with.
-- Ed Robertson

#Kids #College #People
I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.
-- Ed Robertson

#People #Spoons #Sporks
Whoever thought the future would feel so much like the present?
-- Ed Robertson

#Feels
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.
-- Ed Robertson

#Song #Writing #Thinking
Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.
-- Ed Robertson

#Expectations #Quality #Firsts
I think we should start a movement, and everyone should just start wearing metal pants to the airport.
-- Ed Robertson

#Thinking #Airports #Movement
I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little... it'll grow back!
-- Ed Robertson

#Sex #Fun #Eye
'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.
-- Ed Robertson

#Guy #Dollars #Week
If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.
-- Ed Robertson

#Thinking #Trying #Intense
I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.
-- Ed Robertson

#Sweat #Singing #May

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