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24 quotes by Ben Gibbard

Benjamin "Ben" Gibbard (born August 11, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded seven studio albums, and as one half of the electronica duo the Postal Service. Gibbard released his debut solo album, Former Lives, in 2012, and a collaborative studio album, One Fast Move or I'm Gone (2009), with Uncle Tupelo and...
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Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the... →

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We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The... →

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Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and... →

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I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

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Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about... →

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As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

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It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

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For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly... →

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What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life... →

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You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure... →

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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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I just rediscovered my guitar.

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I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

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