Ed OBrien Quotes (39 Quotes)

I just don't feel like people know what all we have going on here. Two of our three losses were to some of the best schools in the state (St. Petersburg Catholic and Palm Beach Gardens Dwyer), and our seniors have played really well, too. But in districts the level of intensity is so much higher any team can step up.

The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.

What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.

You see how little a lot of people have. Keep in mind, this may be the best day they have the whole year.

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

I don't think enough people know what Lance has meant to us this season. He spent a lot of last season injured, but this year he has just been outstanding.

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

A lot of the time, now, it would seem that the power doesn't reside with politicians. So much power has been given over to corporations.

We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.

We're going to play around with the setlist. It should be quite fun. I'm happy to play most of our songs as long as we keep moving, keep it fresh.

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

Guaranteeing these benefits is the single most important step the government could take toward restoring the long-term competitiveness of the U.S. steel industry.

We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.

Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.

The thing you worry about is that the rock'n'roll business can turn you and wants to turn you into one of these really sad old musicians.

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

But that's the history of the human race - you can meet wonderful people on both sides, but they'll do horrible things to each other.

We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.

It gives him a taste of the college level. I expect him to be a beast.

I've watched over the years as steel has gone from being the backbone of the American economy to a struggling industry, whose decline has devastated countless families and entire communities.

We are going to tour next year, definitely. Hopefully we're going to have a couple of tracks to download by about April or May. But we're going to go out in May, we're going to do some theatres because part of what we're doing is play new material. It's a good way to get your shit together.

We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

Bowie, in the Seventies, was a reference, and it is with that we aspire. He did not stop composing, he changed his style continuously.

Some people over there think we're a bunch of country bumpkins and that we can't play basketball.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

He's the head. When you cut the head off, the rest of the team struggles.

Using GE Energy's 200-watt solar modules will allow us to increase the amount of power generation per square foot of roofing space by 20 percent. This results in savings for our customers on both material and labor costs while reducing the amount of roof space they need to allocate to power generation.

Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.