Dan Smith Quotes :
Whenever we’re on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It’s a joke.
Dan Smith
There are moments, when you’re playing your songs to thousands of people, which are amazingly satisfying. I’m very self-critical, so I find it hard to go along with moments like that.
Dan Smith
I love David Lynch’s style. Someone once thought I was his son, so I must have been doing an alright job at emulating it.
Dan Smith
I love wearing Converse or Vans and wear a lot of bombers or denim jackets. I’m also a bit of loser, so wear a lot of film and band T-shirts. My friends say that I look like a cartoon character because I’m always wearing the same kind of stuff.
Dan Smith
I generally wear a lot of black clothes, and I think that comes from wanting to be as neutral as possible. We use a lot of visuals on stage, so I kind of hope people are watching those and not looking at me.
Dan Smith
I once went on a date where the girl drove and so couldn’t drink. I was nervous, so drank quite a bit – it didn’t end amazingly. As much as I love movies, I think cinema dates can be weird because you essentially sit next to each other in silence for a couple of hours.
Dan Smith
I don’t necessarily feel 100 per cent comfortable standing up on stage in front of lots of people, but I don’t think most people would. It’s a pretty bizarre thing to do. It can also be absolutely incredible having thousands of people singing back lyrics that you might have written in your bedroom or wherever.
Dan Smith
There’s a lot of variety in our gigs, our records, our mixtapes, and our videos.
Dan Smith
We love to visit Las Vegas. It is so much fun, so iconic; it is always a pleasure.
Dan Smith
‘Fire Walk With Me’ was so divisive because the tone was so different than the TV series. But now television is almost more of a free medium than cinema.
Dan Smith
The Backstreet Boys posted a cover of our single ‘Good Grief.’ It was so cool, and they reached out to us, saying, ‘When you’re in town, come to the show.’
Dan Smith
Reading interviews with other people, I see them say, ‘All I want is for our band to be massive’, but it was never an ambition of ours to be in a band that’s this big. That’s so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling. There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious, but we’re not.
Dan Smith
When ‘Flaws’ went to No 21, we thought it was the most chart-bothering thing we’d ever do. We had a little party and started thinking about the next album.
Dan Smith
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I know who buys our music: we have such a diverse fanbase.
My songs used to be significantly more bizarre. I used to play a big electric piano and a loop pedal. I was really into Regina Spektor, and I liked her narrative lyrics that were quite off the wall. I used to layer things up and try and replicate what I’d been doing with my bedroom recordings.
Dan Smith
I’m not interested in writing overtly autobiographical songs. I would rather explore interesting stories. I like the idea of the songs being evocative and distinctive, so I have in my mind the atmosphere that a film could evoke. I like to think of them existing in their own little world.
Dan Smith
The first turning point, when I stopped doing things by myself and the Bastille project began, was the inclusion of more electronic music into the sound.
Dan Smith
We’ve been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.
Dan Smith
I guess the way people release music and the way people listen to it has changed and is changing constantly. We wanna get the music out as quickly as possible. We’re sitting on a lot of stuff and constantly making new stuff as well.
Dan Smith
I think everyone has such varied taste in music.
Dan Smith
I think basically, there are some bands and acts who feel the need to cultivate a persona or act a certain way or get quotes or whatever, because they feel like that helps them get promotion, and I feel like we’re a band who have always just made music that we love and kept ourselves to ourselves and got on with it.
Dan Smith
It’s such an interesting experience seeing how different people react to music and the generosity of some and the craziness of others – people who go see bands in different countries, know all the words to the songs, and get tattoos. It’s so unexpected.
Dan Smith