Quotes by Rostam Batmanglij

Rostam Batmanglij

‘Unbelievers’ was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that’s one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

Believe

Reason

Song

As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn’t feel happy. I think I had some existential frustration and I was wrestling with that on a few different levels. I was feeling like I wanted to change a lot of things.

Frustration

Thinking

Wrestling

At some point I decided I didn’t want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn’t really like Van Halen.

Mountain

Van Halen

I did take guitar lessons as a teenager, though, and I started to teach myself how to play everything I could play on the guitar on piano, so I had a really weird, non-traditional route to proficiency. I think it probably helped me come at things from a new angle.

Teach

Teenager

Thinking

I feel connected to every song on this record [ ‘Modern Vampires Of The City’ ], but yeah I think there’s something special about ‘Young Lion’. It’s pretty different from any song that we’ve had before because the vocals are kind of between two different very simple instrumental piano melodies and it’s almost like something that we call a vignette, it’s sort of like a miniature.

Simple

Song

Thinking

I guess I have some kind of a visceral connection with drums. I’m looking to create music that people can react to viscerally, and people will respond to viscerally. I think that you can listen to music, to a song you’ve never heard before and not really like it, but also feel like you’re responding to it physically whether you like it or not. I think that’s a powerful aspect about music, and I think that’s something that draws me to drums.

Powerful

Song

Thinking

I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn’t do it with my own songs. It took that moment of pointing the camera at myself to realize that it was okay to get lost in making my own music. I think before that I was scared of pushing myself to the point of staring into the abyss.

Scared

Song

Thinking

I like the idea that a song can be about a romantic relationship, but it can also about a relationship to your career, or a relationship to your city. It can be about a person, but at the same time it can be about a situation.

Romantic Relationship

Situation

Song

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.

Ideas

Persons

Song

I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she’s a joy to work with. She’s fab at singing and she has a real… she has an understanding that’s both intellectual and emotional about singing, that I think that very few people have.

Angel

Emotional

Real

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Crow

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Feel Good

Frustration

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Get Better

Hated

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Ideas

Kids

Knows

Mind

Mountain

Persons

Powerful

Real

Reason

Romantic Relationship

Said

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Shy

Simple

Situation

Sometimes

Song

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Quotes by Rostam Batmanglij

Rostam Batmanglij

‘Unbelievers’ was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that’s one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn’t feel happy. I think I had some existential frustration and I was wrestling with that on a few different levels. I was feeling like I wanted to change a lot of things.

At some point I decided I didn’t want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn’t really like Van Halen.

I did take guitar lessons as a teenager, though, and I started to teach myself how to play everything I could play on the guitar on piano, so I had a really weird, non-traditional route to proficiency. I think it probably helped me come at things from a new angle.

I like the idea that a song can be about a romantic relationship, but it can also about a relationship to your career, or a relationship to your city. It can be about a person, but at the same time it can be about a situation.

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.

I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she’s a joy to work with. She’s fab at singing and she has a real… she has an understanding that’s both intellectual and emotional about singing, that I think that very few people have.

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