Ben Gibbard Quotes

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• For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be…
• I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that…
• More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.
• I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.
• 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…
• As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
• I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.
• I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
• I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you…
• I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar…
• Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.
• And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.
• 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 writing…
• 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…
• I just rediscovered my guitar.
• I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.
• I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs…
• The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
• The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the…
• Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside…

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