I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would just put the pen down and walk away, and wait for it to come back. But these days,… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and then that… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any topic -… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
What frustrated us about the song [Robots] was not that it existed - we owe a lot to that song and have had a… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone. — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested. — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong. — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
![“What frustrated us about the song [Robots] was not that it existed - we owe a lot to that song and have had a ton of fun playing it. The problem was that it was a "given".It was like everyone was waiting for it to happen, and then it better be as crazy as the time they saw it before. Started to…” quote by Dan Mangan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/382/dan-mangan-13674_crazy_what-frustrated-us-about-the-song-robots_77798.jpg)
