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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.' "

Ted Dwane

People

You

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

Ted Dwane

Never

Know

" A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they're pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere. "

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

" We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music. "

" We're not the first band who went to public school. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Touring is something I do really well. "

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

" We were proud of our first two records, but the parameters were pretty narrow. We didn't have full drums, for example. There were just so many limitations to that setup, and we really fully explored them. "

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

" We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments. "

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

" 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. "

" None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.' "

Ted Dwane

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Doing

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

" 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. "

" I play the drums really, really badly. "

" We're a restless bunch, and we have a lot of energy - we're never going to stand still. "

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

" We don't sing about eating local produce or growing beards or anything like that. It's funny to find yourself in a position where people associate you with things that are completely arbitrary to your songs. "

" 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. "

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

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

Ted Dwane

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Lot

" 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. "