All Ben Gibbard Quotes
- 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… Any
- 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… Almos
- 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. Endeavor
- 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. Bad
- 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… All
- As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life. Funny
- I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world. Currently
- I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines. Came
- 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… Applying
- 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… Arm
- Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting. Inspirational
- And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time. Came
- 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… Act
- 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… Always Speaks
- I just rediscovered my guitar. Funny
- I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist. Collins
- 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… Any
- 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. Album
- 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… Changes
- 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… Abuser
- We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore.… Always Let
- I love bummer songs. Bummer
- When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band. Band
- To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money. Atlantic