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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. "

Ted Dwane

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" We were thrilled when we were nominated for best new artist at the Grammys, but we were even more so when they asked us to play live. "

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" We'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes, and collaborate with so many people. "

" I play the drums really, really badly. "

" Touring is something I do really well. "

" We never thought we'd be commercially viable, and we were proved wrong. "

" 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.' "

" There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.' "

" 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. "

Ted Dwane

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Strange

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

Ted Dwane

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Lot

" We don't want to be as big as Oasis! "

" You can't just repeat. It's valueless. So we - we're really keen to challenge ourselves. I suppose a byproduct of that will be challenging our fans a bit as well. "

" 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. "

" When we made the first album, it was meant to be a snapshot of Mumford & Sons in 2009. "

" Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid. "

" We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know. "

Ted Dwane

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Know

" Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives. "

" We really believe in our music, and it's still heartening to know that it's appreciated, and that's what sticks. "

" 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. "

" Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy. "

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

" I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe. "

" We kind of are Okies at heart. I don't really know what an Okie is, but I feel like one. "

" When you write on the road, you are restricted to the instruments around you, whereas in the studio, you can plug anything in and try it. "

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

" I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations. "

" I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up. Saying the word 'God,' 'Jesus' - it happens in a million rock songs. "

Ted Dwane

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Career

" We wouldn't last a year on the road playing music that we didn't love. "