Marcus Mumford quotes
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“A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.”
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“It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.”
-- Marcus MumfordSource : "Mumford & Sons: sound of the summer". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.
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“Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be”
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“If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.”
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“A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.”
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“The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.”
-- Marcus MumfordSource : "How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2012.
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“I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.”
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“I'd love to write a country album with Adele.”
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“Every band I've come across has read more than I have.”
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“I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don’t have a clue what they’re on about.”
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“I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.”
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“I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.”
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“When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.”
-- Marcus Mumford
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