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I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, This looks good!.
Mac DeMarco
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Mac DeMarco
Age: 34
Born: 1990
Born: April 30
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Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.
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I mean it was weird. But Phoenix watched us every night. But it's like they're not even a band, they're like a corporation. They bring a staff of like 40 people.
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I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks.
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Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, Another beer, another show, another song.
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Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.
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[My House By The Water] is a nice instrumental track. The sound of the water is from the same place where the front photo was taken. I live really close to the airport, so there's also planes going over. It's kind of to remind me of living in there, because I'm not gonna be living in there for very much longer.
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I get asked that a lot: What do you think your role is, with all the people that look up to you? I'm an entertainer, you know? I'm not trying to bombard anybody with anything, but at the same time, face-to-face or in real life, if I'm talking to some kid, I have opinions just like everybody else does.
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Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
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