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" We don't make music except for the joy of making music, really - and meeting people and sharing ideas. "
Ted Dwane
Make
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Joy
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Whether people jump up and down when they see us or are completely quiet, it just feels really good that they're connecting. "
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" 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. "
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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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" There's definitely a negative correlation between the higher the profile and the enjoyment of the gig. "
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" We're obviously a London band, and British at heart. "
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" Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid. "
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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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" I play the drums really, really badly. "
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Really
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" We don't read a lot of what people say about us. "
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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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Moon
You
Always
" 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. "
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" As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in our own way - a way we can control it so there's not all kinds of company branding around the show - and do it in a way that celebrates the community. "
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Community
Sports
Play
" 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 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. "
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Two
Proud
" 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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" 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. "
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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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" You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands. "
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" 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. "
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" Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity. "
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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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" We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments. "
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" If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you. "
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" People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs. "
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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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