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I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.
Ben Gibbard
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Ben Gibbard
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: August 11
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Singer-Songwriter
Bremerton
Washington
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I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.
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A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I’ve always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I’ve always loved it and I like how those words sound together.
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Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We'll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.
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I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.
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More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.
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For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance.
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I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.
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I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.
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I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.
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I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.
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There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.
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I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.
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I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.
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To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.
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There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I'd always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, I will never live in fear again.
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