Ed Droste Quotes

• I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

  Ed Droste

  Definitions, These Days, Pops

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Sometimes

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• I'd much rather speak up and stand behind something I believe in than worry about pissing off a couple hundred people. And if they're more pissed off than if I never said anything, well, sorry but not sorry.

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  Sorry, Couple, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or something, and to listen to all sorts of stuff from around the world.

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  People, Around The World, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always loved to sing with somewhat vague lyrics so people can have their own interpretation and find their own meaning with it. I've become a bit more comfortable speaking about personal matters within the lyrics, but at the same time, there is an element where I'm not always sure how far I want to take it. There are certain topics that I'm discussing that I haven't explicitly explained to my bandmates. That's just for me to know, and I'm not going to talk about it anywhere.

  Ed Droste

  People

  "How Grizzly Bear created their most accessible album to date". Interview with Robin Pecknold, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2017.

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• It's really hard to maintain a band as a democracy. Again, I think there's been a shift. There's a lot of emphasis put on style and a singular personality, as opposed to a more anonymous group of people playing music. It's more about can I dress this person up? Are they going to look pretty? I feel like the cult of personality is back, for sure.

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  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.

  Ed Droste

  Thinking, Fascination, Choral Music

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Every album has a thing where it's like, "How are we going to marry our four ideas and personalities?" The older we get, the more people become comfortable with their strengths and weaknesses. Being in a band with such a long history can be frustrating and slow, but ultimately it's so much more rewarding.

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  Long, People, Personality

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• I do enjoy talking about how everything's changed and I'm fascinated by it, and I can spend my time worrying, like, "Are we going to appeal to teens?" But then, if I were to try to make a record for teens, I'd be doing exactly what I said I didn't want to do. That'd be posturing. And I'm watching other people trying to do that, and they all look stupid. But for some of them, it's working, so cash in.

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  Stupid, People, Worry

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel like a lot of the stuff coming out right now just feels really inauthentic to me. But apparently, people don't seem to see through it. And this makes me sound bitter, but it's just my perspective. I'm not bitter. I just feel like there's a lot of stuff that doesn't feel like it's coming from a place of any sort of integrity. It just doesn't feel like it's coming from the heart, basically. It just feels like it's being produced because people know it's a formula that will work, or it's easily digestible and fun to look at.

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  Fun, Integrity, Heart

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's a particular trend towards the empty pop song right now. Where people are like, "This. Is. Brilliant. She's singing about a crush on somebody. Wowww." You know what I mean? There's a weird, I don't know... It's called "poptimism."

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  Crush, Song, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel like there's not as many bands anymore. It's more like there's a front-person and a band supporting them, solo-type spirits that have a look, a vibe, a message, a voice and a style. I was talking about it with a journalist in Europe; he was like, "You're a democracy; everyone in the band does stuff." There's not a lot of bands I can think of that still have it so every member of the band has an equal say. I was like, dude, you're right. I can't really think of any right now. There might be one or two leaders in them, but there are not a lot of bands like that anymore.

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  Thinking, Leader, Style

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't want to do a gimmick. It's a bummer that that's how it is. I would say, personally speaking, consuming music now is harder than it was before. It's like being stuck in a slot machine. There's just so much noise. It's just constant noise. It's harder to clear your head and give the time to music that a lot of it really deserves. It's really crazy how different your relationship to an album or music becomes, even if it's digital, if you spend the $7 to $10 on it. It forms this relationship where you're not just going to throw it away.

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  Crazy, Giving, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It seems to be really trendy to get excited about a random-ass radio song. Which, I like radio songs, don't get me wrong. But I'm just confused at which ones seem to be heralded as some sort of genius-like concoction. It doesn't totally make sense to me.

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  Song, Confused, Excited

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have the right to speak up. If you don't want to listen, just unfollow. If you're so upset about it you can't even listen to my music, because you're upset that we're not supporting Trump or whatever, then fine. Don't. Don't listen. Moving on. End of story. I'm more disappointed in fellow artists that stay mum for fear of losing a handful of fans.

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  Moving, Artist, Upset

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.

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  Kids, People, Process

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.

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  Track, Albums, Easier

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally fair.

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  Angry At Someone, People, Firsts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

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  Song, Listening, Favorites Things

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

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  Mother, Teacher, Grandfather

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