Ben Gibbard Quotes

• You can’t please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

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• When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.

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• What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it’s had.

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• We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

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• We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren’t necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn’t.

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• To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn’t sign to Atlantic just for the money.

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• The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you’re listening to the song because they’re so seamless and clever.

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• The second ‘Postal Service’ album is threatening to become the ‘Chinese Democracy’ of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won’t.

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• Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you’re able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.

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• It’s trippy to think we have an album that’s 10 years old. It’s even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

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• It’s like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

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• I’ve covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don’t think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

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• I’ve always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He’s a great vocalist.

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• I’m not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who’s not a baseball player.

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• I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn’t get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don’t even want.

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• I love bummer songs.

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• I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of ‘Plans’ came out of samples and vocal lines.

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• I just rediscovered my guitar.

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• I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late ’50s, early ’60s kind of world.

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• I don’t want to be overdramatic about it, but I’m starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

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Ben Gibbard (24)

Birth:	11th August, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician

About

Benjamin Ben Gibbard is an American musician known as a member of several successful indie rock bands. He is the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, and is also known for his project ¡All-Time Quarterback! and his first band, Pinwheel. Gibbard became engaged to actress and musician Zooey Deschanel in 2008. The couple married in September 2009 near Seattle, Washington. He reportedly gave up alcohol in 2008 and began running marathons.

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