"Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Colin Meloy

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Band Quotes

“I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.”
“The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.”
“My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.”
“My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.”
“In terms of love and romance, it just seems less and less like that's ever going to happen again, or be a possibility for me. I feel like I've irrevocably lost so much. You want the surprise, but it gets harder and harder to find, whether we're talking about romance, or somebody else's song, or your own song.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“Oh, God, open all doors for me. Oh God who answers prayers and answers those who ask you, I am asking you for your help. I am asking you for forgiveness. I am asking you to lighten my way. I am asking you to lift the burden I feel. Oh God, you who open all doors, please open all doors for me, open all venues for me, open all avenues for me. God, I trust in you. God, I lay myself in your hands.... There is no God but God, I being a sinner. We are of God, and to God we return.”
“Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.”
“I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring”

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