Mac DeMarco Quotes - Page 2

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• You kind of have to be like " What have you been working the last five years for? Why are you complaining?" It's essentially me talking myself out of being a crybaby indie rock butthead.

  Mac DeMarco

  Rocks, Talking, Years

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.

  Mac DeMarco

  Boys, Two, Piano

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• It's so crazy with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually interested in you. I feel so lucky when that happens.

  Mac DeMarco

  Crazy, Play, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Real, Writing

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• When we were in Beijing, they were all "it's an honor, you're playing at the oldest rock club in Beijing". And I was all "oh crazy how old is it?" And then were all: "5 years old."Asia is just very different.

  Mac DeMarco

  Crazy, Rocks, Years

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• [Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.

  Mac DeMarco

  Jobs, Years, Lasts

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.

  Mac DeMarco

  Home, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better than Salad Days to tell you the truth.

  Mac DeMarco

  Reflection, Thinking, Albums

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I've recorded at home since I was a teenager, and I'm able to sit here in my underwear and keep trying different things until something works. I think if I did that in a studio the engineer would be like, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

  Mac DeMarco

  Teenager, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.

  Mac DeMarco

  Fun, Play, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm getting paid to tour and travel and I don't have to work a shitty job. And it's weird because you like start getting pissed off about that.

  Mac DeMarco

  Jobs, Pissed Off, Paid

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I've never done an album in the same place really - I like to be able to remember where I did every single one of them .

  Mac DeMarco

  Albums, Done, Able

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• I like a lot of west coast stuff like Aerial Pink.

  Mac DeMarco

  West Coast, Stuff, West

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I don't think anybody has a choice. Everybody has to kind of interact with all the craziness right now. I don't like to engage - a lot of people made a point of doing the social media thing, and I think that social media is complete trash, so I treat it like that. I like Instagram. I like the funny photos. Other than that, it's not for me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I really love a lot of Japanese music, like Ryuichi Sakamoto and this guy I got really into, Tatsuro Yamashita. When I was a little younger, I thought synthesizers meant Kraftwerk, cold, robotic, weird, Autobahn. But these guys are having a lot of fun on these things. Sometimes. Sometimes it's very somber. They could go either way.

  Mac DeMarco

  Fun, Guy, Cold

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.

  Mac DeMarco

  Hands, Piano, Singing

  Source: lagroupie.tumblr.com

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• I do like touring. Sometimes it's crazy. We're really lucky and we've gone all over the world. You can't complain about getting paid to see the world. I've had to reel myself in a little bit at some points.

  Mac DeMarco

  Crazy, Complaining, Lucky

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I mean it was weird. But Phoenix watched us every night. But it's like they're not even a band, they're like a corporation. They bring a staff of like 40 people.

  Mac DeMarco

  Mean, Night, Phoenix

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• Over a year before I started recording Salad Days, so I finally sat down and was like I have to do this. And it did feel like a chore. I was looking at it in a completely wrong way, trying to one up myself. Just the typical sophomore album bullshit. The main thing I got out of it is I eventually gave up on all that stuff. I had to re-learn why I liked making music in the first place, why I liked recording in my room all the time. Because it's fun. It's fun for me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Fun, Years, Bullshit

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I mean, Manhattan is cool. But weird parts, I like that. Jamaica, Queens, that's great.

  Mac DeMarco

  Queens, Mean, Jamaica

  Source: lagroupie.tumblr.com

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• [My House By The Water] is a nice instrumental track. The sound of the water is from the same place where the front photo was taken. I live really close to the airport, so there's also planes going over. It's kind of to remind me of living in there, because I'm not gonna be living in there for very much longer.

  Mac DeMarco

  Nice, Taken, Airports

  Source: lagroupie.tumblr.com

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• Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Beer, Over You

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I lived in Brooklyn for a year and I moved out to Rockaway Beach. I've been living here for two years now. I put my address on the album, so I have a lot of visitors all the time.

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  Beach, Years, Two

  Source: lagroupie.tumblr.com

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• Connan Mockasin from New Zealand. I met him a little while ago, I love his music.

  Mac DeMarco

  Littles, Mets, New Zealand

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my songs might be cheesy; I try and keep it light. It's hard to explain.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, One Direction, Light

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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