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Colin Meloy Quotes

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It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs  (Colin Meloy Quotes) Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There’s an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won  (Colin Meloy Quotes) 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  (Colin Meloy Quotes) It’s hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us  (Colin Meloy Quotes) I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials  (Colin Meloy Quotes) I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It’s an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive  (Colin Meloy Quotes) My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis  (Colin Meloy Quotes) 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.  (Colin Meloy Quotes) When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn’t hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people  (Colin Meloy Quotes) Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There’s an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.  (Colin Meloy Quotes) All instruments sound fantastic in a church  (Colin Meloy Quotes) An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck  (Colin Meloy Quotes) We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos  (Colin Meloy Quotes) 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  (Colin Meloy Quotes)