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I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

Dan Bejar

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Dan Bejar
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: October 4
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Dominion of Canada
Daniel Bejar
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Always
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Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.
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It never really interested me in the past but, for the first time, I wanted to make a pop record. I thought a good way of doing it would be to make songs that didn't really make sense to me as songs songs that I couldn't just sit down and play in front of someone and then get them to play over it.
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It's actually really stereotypical that someone should be 40 and mellow out, but I think it's more about trying to conjure up a different intensity in my head, one where I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.
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I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being engaged with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.
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I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.
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I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.
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I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.
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I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.
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