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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. "

Winston Marshall

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" Just being thought of as a Christian is pretty annoying. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But just being told you're anything when you're not. "

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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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" I'm a modern-day renaissance man. "

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" The thing about Nashville that's amazing is everyone plays... so you don't meet up for a drink, you meet up for a pick. It's an incredibly creative town, just bubbling with energy. "

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" Every day is a learning day. "

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" The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut. "

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

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

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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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" I don't understand how those old bands did it. We worked out early on that if we did three gigs in a row and went out afterwards, we'd lose our voices. We know our limits. "

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" England's just very cynical. "

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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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" My dream is to tour for 50 years. "

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" The New Lost City Ramblers are a very good comparison, actually. They really took the music seriously, and we take the music very seriously. But we don't take ourselves seriously at all. "

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" We're all big fans of bluegrass. "

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

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" Banjos, dobros, and acoustic guitars are not our first instruments. "

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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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" We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans. "

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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 play the instruments we love. "

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" I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.' "

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" For me, food and music are very similar in that you create, you spend a lot of time making something, and it only lasts a few seconds or a few minutes. "

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

Winston Marshall

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

Winston Marshall

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

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" We called ourselves Mumford & Sons because we liked the idea of an old-fashioned, family-owned store. "

Winston Marshall

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

Winston Marshall

" We're not all Christian, so we can't be a Christian band. "

Winston Marshall

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

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