Dan Deacon Quotes

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• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  Dan Deacon

  People, Want, Feels

  Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

  Dan Deacon

  Meaningful, Writing, Records

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• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  Dan Deacon

  Energy, Needs, Unattainable

  Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I think there is going to be a large paradigm shift in a few years, and it could either be to a new age of enlightenment and unity and we'll be raised to a new level of consciousness, or it could be a return to a dark age of kings and mass, open oppression followed by a die-off of human culture.

  Dan Deacon

  Dark, Thinking, Unity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

  Dan Deacon

  Zero, Lazy, Dollars

  Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 15, 2009.

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• It's weird how people hate getting older.

  Dan Deacon

  Hate, People, Getting Older

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

  Dan Deacon

  Wanted, Lasting, Effects

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• I think living in Baltimore and being a part of the community and trying to be part of as many communities as possible within the city, the best thing that anyone can do in Baltimore is just to be a part of it and contribute to it and to not see it as...A lot of people from outside the city see this city for its blight and I feel like people who live within the city do the opposite and see this city for what defines it as, in my mind, the most beautiful place to live.

  Dan Deacon

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.slate.com

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• It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

  Dan Deacon

  Goal, Made, Solo

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• I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.

  Dan Deacon

  Overwhelming

  Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

  Dan Deacon

  Thinking, Years, Brain

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• Obviously, selling out is an issue but it's almost like an uncanny valley where you can be pretty unpopular for a while but you'll have die-hard fans that love you. Then as you get more popular, it'll be great and people will be excited for you and then you get to this middle-level popularity and people are like, "Oh, you're not famous but you're also not - we know who you are." You're just this like hideous disfigured music.

  Dan Deacon

  Love You, People, Excited

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  Dan Deacon

  Writing, Ideas, Should

  Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 23, 2009.

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• You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

  Dan Deacon

  Stupid, Rap, People

  Interview with Chris Martins, music.avclub.com. April 15, 2009.

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• Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music.

  Dan Deacon

  Music Is, Paradigm

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I think the hardest part is figuring out what to say no to because the whole start of your career is just begging anybody to let you perform or to contribute music to something. Then it's like turning on a faucet because the moment it's on, people are like, "Oh, you can do stuff? All right. Well, you want to do it every single thing?

  Dan Deacon

  Thinking, People, Moments

  Source: www.slate.com

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• It's hard not to sell out because once, you know, I grew up with working-class parents who definitely, definitely would be disappointed if I didn't take particular jobs being like, "What are you talking about? I would have worked years for that money in like, actual physical labor." So there's a privilege to not selling out. You already have to be in a position where you can look at that money and not care about it.

  Dan Deacon

  Parent, Care, Selling

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I don't think there's anything wrong in being an entertainer because if at the end of the day people want to forget about their problems or to process their problems through something joyous, I think that's ultimately what my role in this is.

  Dan Deacon

  Thinking, People, Problem

  Source: www.slate.com

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• To get large groups of people to dance, there needs to be something accessible about the music. The beat can't be too esoteric, but unless we're talking about prog or etherealist composition, I think there's something simplistic about most music. What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice? Those people aren't really listening; they're judging a song off of a beat, off of a pulse.

  Dan Deacon

  Song, Smart, Simple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think as this generation of electronic musicians goes on, popular electronic music will be more and more accepted. It's gonna get less confusing. You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

  Dan Deacon

  Stupid, Rap, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music. I came out like, "How is this going to be more than a hobby I'm always paying off debt for?" I could've sat at a desk and written pieces for orchestras that never would have been played, or I could've written music for me as a performer. I play electronics, and the places I was gonna be playing were bass clubs and house parties.

  Dan Deacon

  Party, School, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

  Dan Deacon

  Fun, Nice, Goal

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I really do like seeing other people perform my music. It's one of the most rewarding things for me, so it's worth the extra work.

  Dan Deacon

  People, Extras

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.

  Dan Deacon

  People, Doughnut

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The smaller the instrument or more hidden it is such as electronics, the more esoteric it becomes and in my mind becomes boring watching someone go like this and that has no direct... It's just a complete abstract motion, not attach to any sound.

  Dan Deacon

  Mind, Boring, Abstract

  Source: www.slate.com

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