Passenger Quotes

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Passenger

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 17, 1984

Every time you go in to make a record with the same group of musicians, the communication gets better and better. You've got that joint experience, and you learn with every single one that you have on top of that.

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Some songs take months to get right, but 'Let Her Go' was so easy. I was no more pleased with it than any other song I'd written.

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You have to play to your strengths, and my strength is the amount of content I create.

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If you can write a catchy melody and a song that captures people around the world, what better thing to do? Other than 'Let Her Go,' I haven't managed to do that. And that's fine by me.

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I can play the main stage at the Newport Folk Festival in front of 10,000 people and do all the gigs and stuff I want to do. Then I can go home and get toilet paper on a Sunday morning and not get hassled.

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When I wrote 'Let Her Go,' it's not like I was doing anything different. I was just writing a song as I would any other day of the year; it just so happened that this one resonated with people.

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I don't think I've ever really fitted into the industry and the scene. I feel like I've always been on the cusp.

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I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

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I think whenever I've thought something might go well, it hasn't, and when I've thought, 'Oh yeah, just chuck it out there,' that's when it kicks off, so now, I don't claim to understand anything.

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I'd get a train to some town and wander about to find a decent spot. Sometimes I'd play for three hours; sometimes I'd get moved on after three songs.

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Some people expect me to have changed overnight because of one big song.

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For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.

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I think you're in trouble if you start chasing what you've done in the past. You always need to move on and look forward and do something new.

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I've got friends and my family and people who've been around for years and years and years. And those people are never in doubt: They'd be my friend whether I was a homeless dude, or I had a hit single.

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You see a lot of bands and a lot of artists making that mistake: They become successful for doing something, and then they change everything. They change the people; they change the approach. And then, all of a sudden, almost the essence of what you do is gone.

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I started busking when I was 24. I was living with Mom and Dad. I'd broken up with my girlfriend and didn't know what I was doing with my life, and I thought, 'Well, this is the last shot - I'm going busking, and let's see what happens.'

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I'm so lucky to not have to busk anymore, but I realized as soon as I didn't need to do it that I really missed it.

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Its pretty humbling, because I go back to the places where I used to play for 13 people, and now there's 1,500.

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Maybe when I was a kid, when you have those crazy dreams about what music is going to be like - a string of No. 1 hits, a limo, and a fairground in your back garden - and then you start as a musician, and you realize very, very quickly, that's not how things work. So I just let go of all that stuff.

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My dad's from New Jersey, so I used to go to America a lot. I feel like it is a second home.

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