Quotes by Paul Banks

Paul Banks

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

Might

Sea

Way

If you’re an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don’t even control the core essence of what you do. You try to mold it and develop a style, but the core elements of what you do are just part of who you are.

Artist

Essence

Style

If you’re playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that’s kind of like the cheap chess version.

Chess Game

Cubicles

Games

In an artistic and spiritual sense I’m really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

Albums

Done

Spiritual

It’s not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, “Do you not see there’s a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?”

Misunderstood

Taken

Thinking

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

Absurdity

Agree

Thinking

My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

Hip Hop

Rocks

Tails

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn’t jibe with what you had envisioned.

Art

Littles

Personality

That’s for non-musicians to say: “I only listen to this or that type of music.” I think musicians love all music, or at least that’s my case.

Musician

Thinking

Type

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

Ideas

Sound

Trying

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Absurdity

Agree

Albums

Art

Artist

Band

Broken

Broken Hearted

Care

Careers

Chess Game

Confusing

Crush

Cubicles

Done

Essence

Finishing

Games

Guitar

Guy

Hearted

Hip Hop

House

Ideas

Littles

Long

Might

Misunderstood

Musician

New York

Opaque

People

Personality

Perspective

Play

Player

Quality

Rocks

School

Sea

Song

Sound

Spiritual

Style

Successful

Tails

Taken

Talking

Thinking

Trying

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Quotes by Paul Banks

Paul Banks

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

If you’re an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don’t even control the core essence of what you do. You try to mold it and develop a style, but the core elements of what you do are just part of who you are.

If you’re playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that’s kind of like the cheap chess version.

In an artistic and spiritual sense I’m really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

It’s not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, “Do you not see there’s a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?”

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn’t jibe with what you had envisioned.

That’s for non-musicians to say: “I only listen to this or that type of music.” I think musicians love all music, or at least that’s my case.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

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