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We don't want to be as big as Oasis!
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Oasis
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Touring is something I do really well.
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Touring
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I play the drums really, really badly.
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Badly
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We're not the first band who went to public school.
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Public School
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Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity.
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Self Awareness
Enemies
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Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.
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Self Awareness
Actively
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None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.'
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Babel
None
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Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives.
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Overcome
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We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.
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Band
Time Always Try
Snapshot
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We never thought we'd be commercially viable, and we were proved wrong.
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Commercially
Proved
Viable
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There's not a lot to hide behind when you make the sort of music we make.
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Hide
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People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs.
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Sincerity
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When we made the first album, it was meant to be a snapshot of Mumford & Sons in 2009.
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Meant To Be
Snapshot
Sons
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We're a restless bunch, and we have a lot of energy - we're never going to stand still.
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Restless
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Sticking to our guns creatively is the only way we'll ever survive as a band and be happy.
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Be Happy
Guns
Creatively
Sticking
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Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.
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Band
Drummer
Eight
Weird
Bass Player
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I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.
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Acknowledgment
Universe
Biggest Thing
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There's definitely a negative correlation between the higher the profile and the enjoyment of the gig.
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Correlation
Enjoyment
Profile
Gig
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We don't make music except for the joy of making music, really - and meeting people and sharing ideas.
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Joy
Music Joy People
Except
Meeting
Sharing
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We'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes, and collaborate with so many people.
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So Many People
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A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they're pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere.
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Arena
Atmosphere
Uninspiring
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We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.
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Instruments
Rock Band
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We really believe in our music, and it's still heartening to know that it's appreciated, and that's what sticks.
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Appreciated
Sticks
Our Music
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If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you.
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Battle
Green
Laughed
Green Me Day
Chart
Green Day
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We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.
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Babel
Foreseen
Records
Banjo
Charts
Soaring
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You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands.
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Work Music Your
Work Music Start
Forming
Rent
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Whether people jump up and down when they see us or are completely quiet, it just feels really good that they're connecting.
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Connecting
Feels
Quiet
Up And Down
Good People See
Jump
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I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations.
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Babel
Analogy
Great Story
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Can't cook. Can't, I dunno, do paperwork. I don't know, what else can't we do? I'm not to be trusted with other people's animals.
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Paperwork
Trusted
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We were thrilled when we were nominated for best new artist at the Grammys, but we were even more so when they asked us to play live.
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Grammys
New Artist
Nominated
Thrilled
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It's strange to think about the scathing reviews 'Sigh No More' got and then consider that we could win best album a year or so later.
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Sigh
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When you write on the road, you are restricted to the instruments around you, whereas in the studio, you can plug anything in and try it.
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Instruments
Plug
Restricted
Whereas
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There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'
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Assert
Wolf
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Our spiritual home is definitely the U.K., but we have such a breadth of influence, and America's a huge part of that, as I think it is for most bands.
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Breadth
Huge Part
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I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up. Saying the word 'God,' 'Jesus' - it happens in a million rock songs.
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Bringing
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Ninety percent of the time, I'm sitting in a bus driving through some place like the Colorado mountains and thinking, 'Wow, we're not in a pub in London anymore.'
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Colorado
London
Ninety
Percent
Sitting
Wow
Anymore
Mountains
Ninety Percent
Pub
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You can't just repeat. It's valueless. So we - we're really keen to challenge ourselves. I suppose a byproduct of that will be challenging our fans a bit as well.
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Repeat
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As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.
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Discontent
Mars
Moon
Species
Further
To The Moon
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We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music.
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Cerebral
Drummer
Informs
Instantly
Limitations
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I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there.
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Guitarist
Twice
Double
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Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy.
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Drummer
Momentum
Banjo
Happening
Our Music
Rhythmic
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In December 2010, we embarked on a slightly strange tour of India. We played every kind of gig you could imagine over two weeks, from sports bars to hotel bars to a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre.
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Bars
December
Hotel
Two Weeks
Embarked
Gig
Outdoor
Slightly
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Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.
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Creative People
Inevitable
Change People Way
Natural Thing
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We were proud of our first two records, but the parameters were pretty narrow. We didn't have full drums, for example. There were just so many limitations to that setup, and we really fully explored them.
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Example
Parameters
Proud
Records
Full
Drums
Explored
For Example
Limitations
Narrow
Setup
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We don't sing about eating local produce or growing beards or anything like that. It's funny to find yourself in a position where people associate you with things that are completely arbitrary to your songs.
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Arbitrary
Associate
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You look at the instrumentation, and you can't really argue that we set out with commercial aspirations. Banjos and things like that are not part of some formula for global success. But it felt right, and I think there's some value to purity of intention.
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Instrumentation
Intention
Purity
Aspirations
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We started off as Marcus Mumford, which is our singer's name. But then it very quickly became apparent it wasn't really a one-man thing: it was indeed a band. We wanted to give the impression of a family business, and we just liked the ring of Mumford & Sons.
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Impression
One Man
Apparent
Ring
Family Business
Indeed
Sons
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As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in our own way - a way we can control it so there's not all kinds of company branding around the show - and do it in a way that celebrates the community.
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Arenas
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It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.'
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Ireland
Folk
Perceived
Pub
Rock Band
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