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" Touring is something I do really well. "
Ted Dwane
Something
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" We kind of are Okies at heart. I don't really know what an Okie is, but I feel like one. "
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" We'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes, and collaborate with so many people. "
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" Ninety percent of the time, I'm sitting in a bus driving through some place like the Colorado mountains and thinking, 'Wow, we're not in a pub in London anymore.' "
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" Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing. "
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" People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs. "
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" I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there. "
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" In December 2010, we embarked on a slightly strange tour of India. We played every kind of gig you could imagine over two weeks, from sports bars to hotel bars to a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre. "
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" We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know. "
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" There's not a lot to hide behind when you make the sort of music we make. "
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" We don't want to be as big as Oasis! "
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" Sticking to our guns creatively is the only way we'll ever survive as a band and be happy. "
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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 so later. "
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" We started off as Marcus Mumford, which is our singer's name. But then it very quickly became apparent it wasn't really a one-man thing: it was indeed a band. We wanted to give the impression of a family business, and we just liked the ring of Mumford & Sons. "
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" We have this spirit that's just uncrushable. "
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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 think it is for most bands. "
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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 it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars. "
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" Can't cook. Can't, I dunno, do paperwork. I don't know, what else can't we do? I'm not to be trusted with other people's animals. "
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" It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.' "
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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 part of some formula for global success. But it felt right, and I think there's some value to purity of intention. "
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