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Great Quotations: Alex Ebert

Phobiac - 4-27-2011 at 05:44 PM



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Edward Sharpe was never an alter-ego for me. It got misperceived that way because of a bio I wrote that accidentally instilled this idea into every journalist. At the end of the Ima Robot era, I’d forgotten how to write a song without thinking of pleasing other people. I’d forgotten the joy of writing songs, and the first Edward Sharpe album was me getting back to childlike — not business-oriented — songwriting. And in going back to my childhood, what I thought about musically was my elementary school music teacher… the recorders, and “If I Had a Hammer,” and poor tambourine playing, and some guitar, and lots of children singing.

-Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes (via Spin)


MESinc. - 4-28-2011 at 06:10 PM

weird. ive had that mindset, that it was his alter ego at some point in time, for as long as i have known about esmz. so now its not? :question:

i really want to wash his clothes, make them a crisp white again. but thats just my fashion ocd kicking in.

sabetti01 - 4-28-2011 at 07:30 PM

Quote: Originally posted by MESinc.  
weird. ive had that mindset, that it was his alter ego at some point in time, for as long as i have known about esmz. so now its not? :question:

i really want to wash his clothes, make them a crisp white again. but thats just my fashion ocd kicking in.


That washes away the energy!!

MESinc. - 4-28-2011 at 08:38 PM

or it gives him a great excuse to be a thousand times more energetic so it can become all faded again

acalliopemusical - 5-6-2011 at 03:59 AM

this is very spielberg of him. hot. ilikeit.

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Dynomite2140 - 7-10-2011 at 11:31 AM

If at times people ask me why I have Alex as my role model or why I fantasi- Um, where was I? Oh yeah, role model...
I direct them to this. Nice find :thumbup: