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No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.
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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Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.
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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 actually do see rock and roll as pop music. I think the distinction I was making was that I was going out of my way to have a very consistent approach to production, where nothing kind of punctures the reality - or, I guess, the fake reality - of the album and what you're listening to from beginning to end.
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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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I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.
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I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.
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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 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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Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.
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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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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 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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Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.
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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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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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Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.
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There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.
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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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