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" You can't really opt into something you don't believe in. "
Ted Dwane
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" 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.' "
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" Can't cook. Can't, I dunno, do paperwork. I don't know, what else can't we do? I'm not to be trusted with other people's animals. "
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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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" 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.' "
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" In December 2010, we embarked on a slightly strange tour of India. We played every kind of gig you could imagine over two weeks, from sports bars to hotel bars to a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre. "
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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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" I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe. "
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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're a restless bunch, and we have a lot of energy - we're never going to stand still. "
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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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" 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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" 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 don't want to be as big as Oasis! "
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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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" I play the drums really, really badly. "
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" 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. "
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" Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" When we made the first album, it was meant to be a snapshot of Mumford & Sons in 2009. "
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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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" 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'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes, and collaborate with so many people. "
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" We have this spirit that's just uncrushable. "
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" We wouldn't last a year on the road playing music that we didn't love. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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