"The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively……" — Ben Gibbard
"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 song because they're so seamless and clever."
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24 Quotes by Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard has 24 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be…
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More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you…
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I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get…
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You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy…
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As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
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I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of…
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I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
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I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more…
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I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70…
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Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.
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And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.
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