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You remember that stuff and laugh about it now. You don’t feel it the way you did back then when you were so scared and nervous and tired and hungry.

Ben Gibbard

Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they’ve just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it’s just because they love doing it and they love each other and that’s the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.
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Mtv Play Stay Thinking
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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Descriptive Life Literal Now Undeniable
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
Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters they have to work around.
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Advice Giving Real
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
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
Every record we do there are always two camps. There’s the camp that’s like, “I love it. It sounds different than the last one.”
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Healthy People Thinking
We were playing Chinese restaurants and basements and record stores and houses. We were crashing on floors and it was all new and exciting. It was like a vacation. It didn’t feel like work.
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Basement Exciting House Record Restaurant Vacation
Now that we have the resources, we’re like, “Oh wow, a nice studio is pretty nice! They do have nice outboards here. It’s actually a pretty good place.” It’s funny how much changes so quickly.
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Change Outboard Quickly
I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late ’50s, early ’60s kind of world.
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Kind Late World
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
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
The late ’90s were a really bad time for people trying to be rock stars, you know what I mean? It seemed like everyone was a one-hit wonder on the radio.
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Ambition Country Mean
We always idealize the past because we don’t feel the painful stuff the way we used to.
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Feel Idealize Painful Way
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
There were two recording studios in Bellingham. One was really expensive, a “nice studio.” We were at the point where we were young and irreverent.
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Expensive Irreverent Nice Youth

You remember that stuff and laugh about it now. You don’t feel it the way you did back then when you were so scared and nervous and tired and hungry.

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You remember that stuff and laugh about it now. You don’t feel it the way you did back then when you were so scared and nervous and tired and hungry.

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