Isaac Hanson Quotes

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Isaac Hanson

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 17, 1980

Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

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I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'

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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.

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It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'

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We've always been proud of what we've done.

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For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.

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A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.

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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

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I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.

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Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

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There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.

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We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

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Our songs all carry the same way.

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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

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