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Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.
Dan Bejar
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Dan Bejar
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: October 4
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Dominion of Canada
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I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.
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Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.
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People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.
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I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.
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When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.
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I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer.
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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 don't really listen to rock music anymore. But were I to write a song that sounded like it could be a rock song, I'd probably give it to the Pornographers, and I'd be excited to try to make it work.
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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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I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.
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I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.
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Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.
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Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I'm saying at every single moment.
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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 like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.
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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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When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction.
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