Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

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

" If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you. "

" We're a restless bunch, and we have a lot of energy - we're never going to stand still. "

" 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. "

" We really believe in our music, and it's still heartening to know that it's appreciated, and that's what sticks. "

" 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. "

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

" In December 2010, we embarked on a slightly strange tour of India. We played every kind of gig you could imagine over two weeks, from sports bars to hotel bars to a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up. Saying the word 'God,' 'Jesus' - it happens in a million rock songs. "

" When we made the first album, it was meant to be a snapshot of Mumford & Sons in 2009. "

" 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. "

" Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity. "

" Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid. "

" We were proud of our first two records, but the parameters were pretty narrow. We didn't have full drums, for example. There were just so many limitations to that setup, and we really fully explored them. "

" There's not a lot to hide behind when you make the sort of music we make. "

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

" We don't sing about eating local produce or growing beards or anything like that. It's funny to find yourself in a position where people associate you with things that are completely arbitrary to your songs. "

" 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. "

" We kind of are Okies at heart. I don't really know what an Okie is, but I feel like one. "

" 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. "

" Whether people jump up and down when they see us or are completely quiet, it just feels really good that they're connecting. "

" We don't make music except for the joy of making music, really - and meeting people and sharing ideas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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