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Band Quote by Ted Dwane

“Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.” quote by Ted Dwane — Download Open image

“Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.”

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It's strange to think about the scathing reviews 'Sigh No More' got and then consider that we could win best album a year or…

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People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs.

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You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands.

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We don't read a lot of what people say about us.

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You can't really opt into something you don't believe in.

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As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in…

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You look at the instrumentation, and you can't really argue that we set out with commercial aspirations. Banjos and things like that are not…

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Whether people jump up and down when they see us or are completely quiet, it just feels really good that they're connecting.

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There's definitely a negative correlation between the higher the profile and the enjoyment of the gig.

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If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at…

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As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then…

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Our spiritual home is definitely the U.K., but we have such a breadth of influence, and America's a huge part of that, as I…

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