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I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
- Washed Out
#DJ
#Never
#Performance
#Value
#Work
Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
- Washed Out
#Art
#Help
#People
#Personality
#Way
I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.
- Washed Out
#Normal
#Pretty
#Schedule
#Stay
#Try
Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
- Washed Out
#Ideas
#Life
#Me
#Nostalgia
#Trying
It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.
- Washed Out
#Hope
#Sadness
#Sometimes
#Time
#Weird
When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
- Washed Out
#Fever
#Lost
#Perspective
#Process
#Work
I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.
- Washed Out
#Better
#Everything
#Feel
#Group
#Stage
I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band.
- Washed Out
#Band
#Doubt
#Internet
#Remember
#Sharing
The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy.
- Washed Out
#About
#Down
#Sound
#Up And Down
#Up
I love listening to pop radio.
- Washed Out
#I Love
#Listening
#Love
#Pop
#Radio
It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
- Washed Out
#Collage
#Easy
#Happen
#Interesting
#Song
The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
- Washed Out
#Bittersweet
#Kind
#Meant To Be
#Quality
There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.
- Washed Out
#Back
#Movies
#Old
#Past
#Sound
I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
- Washed Out
#Crazy
#Hard Work
#Important
#Work
#World
When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
- Washed Out
#Back
#Feel
#Home
#I Feel
#Pretty
I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself.
- Washed Out
#Guitar
#Myself
#Old
#Piano
#Young
For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
- Washed Out
#People
#Real
#Stage
#Step
#Work
I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring.
- Washed Out
#Gonna
#Hiring
#University
#Work
The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.
- Washed Out
#Dance
#DJ
#Music
#Unique
#Weird
I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.
- Washed Out
#Art
#Life
#Music
#Pain
#Positive
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