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I don’t hear it now the way I did when I was 20. I think it is undeniable that the songs have become more instantaneously descriptive and literal.

Ben Gibbard

I don’t want to be overly dramatic and say it’s the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go.
BEN GIBBARD

Come Going Keep People
Between every record, we all split off in our own world and we all end up listening to usually pretty different music on our own. We come together not really knowing what the other people having been really listening to and what’s been influencing them.
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Listening People Together
To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.
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God Knows Money Records
I don’t spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself – and if other people like it, that’s great.
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People Song Thinking
I feel like on those older records there are a lot of attempts at clever turns of phrase.
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Attempts Clever Older Record The Phrase
We had friends who had a hit single on the radio and sold 500,000 records, and then they couldn’t get arrested a year later.
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Friend Later Records Single Sold
Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can’t stand us, and people who absolutely can’t live without us. I’d rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.
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Feelings Opposites People
An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It’s more important than anyone else could ever be.
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Girlfriend People Upset
A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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Disappointment Moving People
When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20 or 21, writing those songs and recording that record.
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Airplane Song Writing
I can remember how I sang – a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You’re wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool.
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Cool Listening Mean Photograph Remember Year
I’m not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.
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Baseball Gun Player
As a songwriter, I’m not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
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Life Myself Songwriters Writing
Around that same time I started running. I never saw myself as the kind of person who would become a runner. It seemed unfathomable to me that I would ever run three miles, let alone 26.2.
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Around Miles Myself Runner Started
At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could’ve taken. I don’t think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.
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Regret Taken Thinking
More times than not, it’s a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.
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Needs Thinking Writing

I don’t hear it now the way I did when I was 20. I think it is undeniable that the songs have become more instantaneously descriptive and literal.

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