Paul Banks famous quotes

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I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.
-- Paul Banks

#Song #Thinking #Guitar
It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?".
-- Paul Banks

#Taken #Thinking #Misunderstood
I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible clichÃ© sandwiched in between absurd non-clichÃ©s because I thought it gave the clichÃ© a new resonance. It kills me when my lyrics are misquoted, but as long as people are quoting them right, I don't care what anybody has to say about them.
-- Paul Banks

#Long #People #Care
I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.
-- Paul Banks

#Writing #Player #Guitar
Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's [Kessler] insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."
-- Paul Banks

#New York #Successful #Play
When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam [Fogarino]. Greg [ex-drummer] is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."
-- Paul Banks

#Writing #Guy #Want
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
-- Paul Banks

#Thinking #Absurdity #Agree
...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you.
-- Paul Banks

#Crush #Writing #Trying
Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative
-- Paul Banks

#Broken #Broken Hearted #Hearted
If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea
-- Paul Banks

#Sea #Might #Way

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