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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I do subscribe to the 2012 theory, but regardless of the date, it's hard not to notice that humans are polluting the earth with humans, that soon it'll be difficult to get water to people and find land to grow food on. The infrastructures that hold up cities are going to be harder to maintain, and the resources that make it possible are going to be harder to find. I'm not even talking about oil; I'm talking about, like, steel.

  Dan Deacon

  Water, People, Earth

  Source: www.avclub.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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• Finishing a song is definitely the hardest part. It's, you know, you can polish it forever and then whittle it down into something it wasn't and be like, "I need to build it back up," which is why some tracks have 400 versions. But I guess you know when it's done when...I have a maximalist approach to sound when I can't find any more space to put new sounds.

  Dan Deacon

  Song, Track, Forever

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I think a lot of electronic musicians are drawn to starting with texture because the whole reason we're working with electronics is to try to create new sounds or sounds that cannot be created acoustically. When you're doing that, it's nice to be able to just create a different palette for every single song. I feel like a lot of electronic music sounds like...Each album sounds like a compilation more than it does a band.

  Dan Deacon

  Song, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's always, like, the worst. It turns into a ska song even if I'm trying to write like a horror movie sound track or something.

  Dan Deacon

  Song, Writing, Goal

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Email is a mind-killer. Like, I really think getting a smartphone is the worst move I ever did in being a musician because while we've just been talking my phone's vibrated like 15 times and I only get push notifications for like two apps, so either like a bunch of houses are going up for sale right now or someone's like, "Why aren't you emailing me back?" It's just hard to stay in the moment. I can understand why people go to retreats to write and stuff like that but I don't have the time.

  Dan Deacon

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.slate.com

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• That's tangent, but I like the strategizing and thinking about how things are going to fall and thinking of different ways to engage with fans. Ultimately, the goal is for the music to be heard by as many people as possible.

  Dan Deacon

  Fall, Thinking, Goal

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I thought I wouldn't enjoy the business side of music, but it's fun because it is completely - like running a DIY venue was the same exact thing but just on a smaller scale and a DIY tour is the same thing. You're just running a small business. Like we live within the paradigm of capitalism. Even if I'm going in playing these anarcho spaces, I still have to buy gas.

  Dan Deacon

  Running, Fun, Small Business

  Source: www.slate.com

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• When music becomes a job, you all of a sudden have other jobs and you become like a manager of time. If you have no ability to do that, your job gets very hard very quickly.

  Dan Deacon

  Music Is, Ability

  Source: www.slate.com

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