Quotes by Ted Leo

Ted Leo

Bands– enough with the crayon face-paint– you’re better than that.

Band

Enough

Faces

Despite the fact that I trust the people at major labels who tell me that they want to offer me a home as a “stable artist,” who can just do what he does for the long haul, time has shown that it rarely works out that way – the bottom line is the bottom line, not mention the threat of mergers and firings and whatnot, and people get dropped.

Artist

Home

Long

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

Dream

Ideas

Song

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe.

Connections

Instagram

People

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe. I’m even old-school Instagram. I’m here for your “What did you have to eat today?” I’m fine with that.

Old School

People

Today

I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones for getting at issues and “deeper issues,” and all that. Right now, honestly, I think all religion is proving itself to be a NET negative on the human race. I recognize its valuable place in individual lives and many larger communities – I know the good that is done in its various names all over the world, but I don’t believe in it anymore, and I see the negative aspects dragging us down at a much faster rate than the positive ones are bouying us up.

Believe

Religious

Song

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

Ends

Feels

I love touring. But it’s super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn’t based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.

Albums

Nice

Play

I think it’s become such a part of younger people’s daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it’s OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.

Criticism

People

Thinking

I’m even old-school Instagram. I’m here for your “What did you have to eat today?” I’m fine with that.

Instagram

School

Today

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Albums

Artist

Band

Bangs

Believe

Brain

Connections

Criticism

Desire

Dream

Emotional

Ends

Enough

Faces

Feelings

Feels

Hell

Home

Ideas

Identity

Instagram

Joyful

Long

Loss

Mean

Nice

Night

Obscure

Old School

People

Play

Priorities

Records

Religious

School

Small Moments

Song

Successful

Thinking

Today

Track

Train

Trying

Way

Wind

Writing

Years

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Quotes by Ted Leo

Ted Leo

Bands– enough with the crayon face-paint– you’re better than that.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe.

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe. I’m even old-school Instagram. I’m here for your “What did you have to eat today?” I’m fine with that.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

I love touring. But it’s super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn’t based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.

I think it’s become such a part of younger people’s daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it’s OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.

I’m even old-school Instagram. I’m here for your “What did you have to eat today?” I’m fine with that.

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