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" The less I try, the cooler I am. "

Winston Marshall

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" I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well. "

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" Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing. "

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" My dream is to tour for 50 years. "

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" Every day is a learning day. "

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" It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself. "

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" We don't want to be part of some Tidal 'streaming revolution,' nor do we want to be Taylor Swift and be anti-it. "

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" We're a pretty emotional bunch. You know, someone doesn't say hello to you one day and you're like, 'I cannot believe the gall!' "

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" I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music. "

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" If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole? "

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" You can never really tell what your influences are. "

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" When we first started touring, we were going to these towns we'd never otherwise go to, never otherwise see, and that's sort of why we like being in a band. But we started playing these bigger rooms and not even seeing the towns. "

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" Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French. "

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" I think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they hide their mistakes with the distortion. "

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" The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit. "

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" Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian. "

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" Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero. "

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" We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play. "

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" Once you're out there in front of people, I don't think there's any choice than to just give it your all. "

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" Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... it's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town. "

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" I cut off my dreadlocks, but I couldn't face throwing them away. They were so hard to grow, man. There's a lot of work goes into those things. Some people keep a diary or a photo album to remind them of their past lives - well, I've got hair. Who knows? One day, maybe my grandchildren might want to see it. "

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" Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno. "

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" One of the things we say in this band is if it's not fun, it's not worth doing. "

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" New York - it's the center of the world. "

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" You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well. "

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" We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show. "

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" Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience. "

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" You're always thinking about making new music. "

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" Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more versatile than people realise it to be. It's a beautiful instrument, very rhythmic and melodic. You can do anything with it. "

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" Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments. "

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" I want to bring UCB to England. We don't have anything like it. "

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