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" Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher. "
Isaac Hanson
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" A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you. "
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" There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album. "
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" People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music. "
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" Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance. "
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" 'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you'll have the in the face of challenge and strife. "
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" Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short. "
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" We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery. "
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" I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time. "
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" There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5. "
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" We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music. "
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" I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.' "
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" Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast. "
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" The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it's the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways. "
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Person
Group
" Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame. "
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" I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make. "
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Love
" Hanson will be associated with 'MMMBop' and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are associated with mop tops and suits. "
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Suits
Way
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" The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you. "
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" Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us. "
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" Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those. "
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You
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" Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses. "
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Pull
Own
Band
" Christmas albums are not something you do frequently. "
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" Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson. "
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" We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing. "
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Different
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" Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything. "
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" In some ways, Australian fans are more dedicated and more enthusiastic than some of our most loyal fans in the U.S. "
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" We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters. "
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" What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band. "
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Wanted
" There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America. "
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America
Needs
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" The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome. "
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Milwaukee
Crowds
Awesome
" Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States. "
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Back
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