Musician Quotes

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.

You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.

Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.

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