Dan Mangan Quotes - Page 2

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• I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.

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  Growing Up, Kids, Technology

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

  Dan Mangan

  Stupid, Ideas, Relative

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• I can predict with some sense of certainty how life will feel in a month. I can with the same logic remember with the same element of reality or truth what life was like a month ago. All perspectives on the past are entirely relative.

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  Past, Reality, Perspective

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.

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  War, Winning, Hopeful

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• I am trying to keep my voice in order. Basically not talking much in the van throughout the day to preserve it, which I'm sure is welcomed by the band.

  Dan Mangan

  Order, Talking, Voice

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.

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  Book, Goal, Alive

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• What frustrated us about the song [Robots] was not that it existed - we owe a lot to that song and have had a ton of fun playing it. The problem was that it was a "given".It was like everyone was waiting for it to happen, and then it better be as crazy as the time they saw it before. Started to feel like dancing monkeys.

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  Song, Fun, Crazy

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.

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  People, Important, Use

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• It doesn't matter if you're talking to a communist or a fascist if you say, do you want a good future for your kids? Well they're all going to say yes. Well do you think that money should be spent efficiently? Yes. Al of these things, everyone agrees on them but the way that we discuss them and the language that we use we hold different definitions for.

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  Kids, Thinking, Talking

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• We're constantly dealing with old problems under the circumstance of new variables, so just things like greed and fear and anger and inequality are issues that humanity has constantly dealt with. The parameters and the variables change but these are old things. And discussing those things is slightly more timeless rather than focusing on one tiny thing.

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  Old Things, Issues, Greed

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• And sometimes you just have to trust that there will be more, sometimes you go through dry spells and you have to assure yourself "no no, it's gonna be fine. There's gonna be more songs, it's all good.

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  Song, Dry, Sometimes

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• I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to digest all the things around me. Once I put thoughts into a song, I can let it go, it doesn't bug me anymore you know what I mean? It's kind of a catharsis.

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  Song, Mean, Important

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• It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.

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  Giving, Challenges, Ongoing

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.

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  People, Missing, Style

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and then that eventually becomes a song. There's a slow permeation of the idea and then that leads into a bunch of themes and becomes a bunch of lines.

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  Song, Circles, Ideas

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

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  Dream, Past, Repeats

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

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  Song, Different, Way

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

  Dan Mangan

  Waiting, Sometimes, Muse

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would just put the pen down and walk away, and wait for it to come back. But these days, I have a kid, I tour a lot, and I'm always short on time.

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  Kids, Waiting, Feelings

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.

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  Enjoy Life, Lucky, Break

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.

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  Country, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• When you have a young kid you can't go out much at night, so I spent a lot of time at home, watching movies and cooking dinner with my wife. It felt like what most people experience. White picket fence stuff.So there was some enjoyment of that normalcy, but I have to admit that part of me missed the chaos of touring. I think it's about balance.

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  Home, Kids, Night

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.

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  People, Suffering, Playing Music

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

  Dan Mangan

  Regret, Real, Nice

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