Aaron Dessner quotes
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“We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.”
-- Aaron DessnerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.”
-- Aaron DessnerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.”
-- Aaron DessnerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.”
-- Aaron DessnerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had more of the political stuff that we just decided to wait on and put aside. A few weeks after the election, I stopped watching cable news and just unplugged. My way of dealing with the new situation we're in was to just work on something that I care about.”
-- Aaron DessnerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“"I'll Still Destroy You" song is lovingly talking about how we change our states of mind, whether it's weed or wine or whatever. It's an ingredient in my life. Sometimes we overindulge ourselves. I've always been okay with that in a funny way. I sing about that stuff a lot, and the dangers of it.”
-- Aaron DessnerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“The Planned Parenthood 7" project is an example of us putting our noses to the grindstone on and trying to make a little difference. Working on that was my way of handling my own emotions about Donald Trump. I was talking about politics for so long, I just kind of ran out of juice on that.”
-- Aaron DessnerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
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“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”
Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
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“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”
Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes
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“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”
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