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I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

Colin Meloy

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Colin Meloy
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 5
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The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.
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I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.
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When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.
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It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.
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An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
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Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.
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I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.
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Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.
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I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.
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There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.
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I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.
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It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
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And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.
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