Latest Dan Bejar Quotes from Interviews

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• I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• It's actually really stereotypical that someone should be 40 and mellow out, but I think it's more about trying to conjure up a different intensity in my head, one where I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

  Dan Bejar

  Mean, Kids, Garden

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

  Dan Bejar

  Feelings, Ease, Causes

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

  Dan Bejar

  Waste, Likes, Wonder

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.

  Dan Bejar

  Appreciate, Drunk, Acid

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.

  Dan Bejar

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, Fire, Band

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.

  Dan Bejar

  Voice, People, Bigs

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

  Dan Bejar

  Guitar, Execution, Very Good

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

  Dan Bejar

  Ideas, Musician, Singers

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

  Dan Bejar

  Important, Quitting, Like You

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

  Dan Bejar

  Struggle, Ideas, Singing

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."

  Dan Bejar

  Reflection, Thinking, Self

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, Roles, Singers

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Romance, Splits

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

  Dan Bejar

  Writing, Musician, Causes

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

  Dan Bejar

  Writing, Conscious, Pacing

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

  Dan Bejar

  Rocks, Expression, Names

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

• I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, Rocks, Storm

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

  Dan Bejar

  Real, Play, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I'm saying at every single moment.

  Dan Bejar

  Single Mom, People, Moments

  Source: pitchfork.com

• It never really interested me in the past but, for the first time, I wanted to make a pop record. I thought a good way of doing it would be to make songs that didn't really make sense to me as songs; songs that I couldn't just sit down and play in front of someone and then get them to play over it.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Past, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

• When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction.

  Dan Bejar

  Jumping, Sound, Want

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

• I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

  Dan Bejar

  Mean, People, Definitions

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12,2012.