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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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" 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. "

Ted Dwane

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" You can't really opt into something you don't believe in. "

" There's definitely a negative correlation between the higher the profile and the enjoyment of the gig. "

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

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

Ted Dwane

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Know

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

Ted Dwane

Play

New

" 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. "

" Sticking to our guns creatively is the only way we'll ever survive as a band and be happy. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I play the drums really, really badly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ted Dwane

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Strange

" 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. "

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

Ted Dwane

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Lot

" Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird. "

" Touring is something I do really well. "

" 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

" 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.' "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "