Fab Moretti Quotes

Fab Moretti

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 2, 1980

Every once and a while there's a point where mainstream and garage kind of cross.

Fab Moretti

Just living out in California, it really puts you in a different mind frame.

Fab Moretti

In New York, I never felt a real big sense of camaraderie between bands.

Fab Moretti

When you live in a house in L.A., you feel so isolated. You urge yourself to go and find the nooks and crannies where people are having a good time.

Fab Moretti

The hype got people to recognize us, and we appreciate that, but we don't invest much attention or credit to the hype. Because when we do, at any moment, whoever is giving that hype can take it away just as easily... and then we're lost.

Fab Moretti

We don't have the big-band mentality. We never wanted to become a big band.

Fab Moretti

We just try not to get big heads.

Fab Moretti

We give ourselves enough free time to work on music and also to get royally happy.

Fab Moretti

I would rather play a club show, just because it tends to make a much livelier show. You can connect with people when it's a smaller crowd.

Fab Moretti

You have to live in the moment and do the best that you can and be true to that moment.

Fab Moretti

I don't spend much time reading our own press.

Fab Moretti

Why the hell would I want to read about myself?

Fab Moretti

We just try to make what we think is good, interesting music.

Fab Moretti

We try to make air-tight, intricate songs with melodies and counter-melodies and rhythms that work together, and we try to make it as palatable as possible - something that's not difficult to listen to.

Fab Moretti

We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don't pay attention to it after the fact.

Fab Moretti

We discovered there were three very specific ways of being in the Strokes. One was in the studio, one was in the face of the media and the other was playing shows.

Fab Moretti

We've gotten a grasp on fame and tamed it and the media.

Fab Moretti

I hate to sound jaded, but everything else has become routine and a business - that's what the music industry has become to me - and I have to remind myself that creating is a privilege.

Fab Moretti

In my case, it's hard to be like a simple drummer who doesn't play all over the place.

Fab Moretti

What I find really interesting about our songs is that one part might sound completely different from another, but they fit together almost in their sort of incongruency.

Fab Moretti