Ed O'Brien Quotes

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• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
• We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
• For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
• But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be…
• But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be…
• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
• I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
• If you want something good to come out of something, you have to put in a lot of effort. That involves a lot of hard…
• Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer…
• We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I…
• So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether…
• At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the…
• There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's…
• We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes…
• What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing…
• I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
• There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We…
• We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.

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