Taylor Quotables
Sorry if a lot of these are similar, but they all like to repeat themselves.
Taylor on the music...
"Just listen to the music, it definite... it totally speaks for itself."
"For a while, there was the alternative thing, and it was huge. Now it's coming back to music being fun. Not corny, but enjoyable. Not down-and-out 'I hate my life'."
"If I saw a band like us the first thing I would say was, FAKE! They're put together, they don't write their own songs."
"Part of what Hanson is, is that there's not just one guy who sings. Having three voices is what makes us Hanson."
"It's not like we're these child geniuses who woke up one morning suddenly able to write good songs."
"Being in the music business can't be about the fame or the money or any of that stuff. You have to really love it."
"If music is the food of love, play on."
"What better job could you possibly have than to be in a band
your whole life?"
"If music is what you do, and you love it, why would you be
sad?"
"Our parents didn't push us into this. This was our thing."
...on writing songs...
"It was cool because we got to write with some incredible
people, but it was very weird because we've always done it by
ourselves."
"Although we love what's on the radio now, that's not the stuff
that inspired us."
"A lot of the time what happens when you're working with other
songwriters is you both bring ideas for songs and you work on either one
or both your ideas."
"Along the line of creation, everything evolves."
...on the fans...
"It's cool to have people respond to you."
"That's the coolest thing - seeing people react when you play live."
"They almost ripped my body half apart!" (talking about the Paramous Mall performance)
"Bands don't lose their hearing because of the music but because of the audience."
"It's really weird getting phone calls and people going 'I love you, I love you...'."
"I love meeting people. The girls usually hug us and say they love us, and the guys usually want to talk about music. It's definitely one of the most fun parts of making music."
"All the sreaming girls and guys going crazy, you just have to have fun with it."
"We're not doing this because we want girls to scream at us . . . but they can scream if they want!"
"A year ago, nobody really cared that much about us so you have to wonder, why do people care now?"
"If there's a girl who's a fan and she's a bit crazy, you are not going to go out with her."
"People think of us as stars, but we don't think we're stars at all."
"I think it's really amazing that people all over the world have
gotten to hear the music and they like it. It's really an awesome
feeling to know that."
"We read our fan mail whenever we can. We really love reading
the mail!"
"Girls can scream at us if they want. We could get used to it.
Hey, we could even learn to love it."
...on his brothers...
"Yeah, Zac was dropped on his head as a baby..."
"If we go off, just the three of us somewhere, it's kind of not a good idea but we do it anyway."
"Zac is the funny one, the crazy one, the insane one. He's very cool onstage. He's also got some sad, deep songs where you go, 'How old is he?'"
"I know Isaac kissed a girl while they were watching 101 Dalmations and she ran home crying to her mum. I find out everything!"
"Zac's got some really deep songs."
"Isaac's the hopeless romantic of the group, I'm the professional and Zac's just mad."
"We get along pretty well. We're not like Oasis. We don't fight all the time."
"We're weird in a way, it's not every kid who sings with his brothers for a living."
"It's great to be good friends with your brothers. Then you've
got friends for life!"
"There's a whole package...three brothers who enjoy hanging out
with each other, who love what they are doing. That's just who we
are. We're just normal guys having fun."
...on mischief...
"I wouldn't throw a TV set through a window. Water balloons and small animals, on the other hand, are fine by me!"
"We get a laugh from dropping water bombs out of windows. It's innocent fun and we don't mean anything by it."
"The worst thing we've done is spitting on people from hotel balconies. I hit someone the other day - that was pretty cool!"
"There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off of the
Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel
really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickle off it once."
...on his habits...
"We never keep our rooms clean. We leave clothes everywhere and our skates are always lying on the floor. People always trip over them."
"I tap on everything, all the time. It annoys people."
"I tap on tables all the time, I can't stop. I like to drum all
the time. My brothers keep saying 'Tay, shut up,' but I can't."
...on MMMBop...
"The MMMBop video was all of our ideas, twisted together."
...on 3CG...
"We actually did it in a one car garage, but we did it in a garage and there's three of us, so we thought, what a combination. Three car garage, that's really all it means. And it kind of works because it's very indie with the garage band concept and all that stuff..."
...on Weird...
"Think about how many times you say 'weird'."
...setting limits...
"I'm a boy, but I'm not gonna pull down my pants to prove it!"
"We want to say right now that we are NOT going to put out Hanson dolls."
...on his childhood...
"When I was little, I couldn't care less about girls--I would have thrown tomatoes at anyone. I used to love tomatoes and I would go 'round chanting 'Tomato Head, Tomato Head' at people. If I saw a large person, I would shout 'Big Tomato Man!'"
"Music was unavoidable in our house."
...on the band's early attempts...
"When we first started out, Zac had some old drums that wouldn't
stay still, and they would roll around stage. That was pretty funny!"
"We wrote a lullaby for our little brother. It woke him up."
...on girls...
"There's a world full of hot chicks out there!"
"We have nothing against girls, actually we like girls a lot. It just hasn't happened naturally."
"You don't go up to someone and say, nice to meet ya. Tongue and all!"
"If there's a bully and he's beating up on a really cute girl, I'm a fighter."
"All you could need, Jennifer Aniston and some jelly beans."
"People ask us if there's girls we write about and there's
actually not. We just dream about them!"
...on money...
"A porsche may be cool but what happens when your career's over and all you have to live in is your car?!"
"We still share a small bedroom, we're not spoiled, and we don't
have loads of money."
...to his brothers...
"Zac, you're retarded."
"Ike, who cares about your hair!"
"Zac, you'd make a cute girl."
"Zac, what the hell are you doing?"
...on his hobbies...
"We all like to draw, our garage was remodeled into a music room, and we're working on a mural for the wall. And we rollerblade, play street hockey and soccer."
"We watch action movies and we don't cry at Arnold Schwarzenegger!"
"Our family's ethnic background is Danish. That explains our
love for LEGO!"
...on life...
"Everything changes."
"You have to know what you want and keep going for it."
"Kids don't hate their parents as much as they did two years
ago."
"Being serious is so boring."
"You have to be yourself before you can be anything."
...on their travels...
"It's really amazing to think, 'Yesterday I was in Indonesia;
today I'm in Canada'...we' ve been all over Asia all over Europe. A lot
of people never get to do that."
"What do you reckon. Is that an English thing to say?"
"You go to a foreign country and hear 'blah, blah, blah, Hanson, blah, blah.' It's weird!"
"If we told you [the coolest place we've been], we'd have to kill you. It's top secret."
...miscellaneous...
"Who would i wanna be if I wasn't me? I would wanna be you cuz I like you."
"An ironing board is boring and who wants a toilet that plays music? If you're ready to flush it you're about to leave the room aren't you?"
"Why would you be sitting outside at a hotel?"
"Sorry, we're gonna be sued by a few mothers. We didn't mean to chop your head off, I mean it was Zac."
"Beep! Wrong answer!!!! Do not pass go, do not collect $200!"
"Nah, if you get nervous, you don't act like the natural you."
"We`re gonna get drunk on Dr. Pepper."
"We don't drink any pop because you know what that means...Pimples!"
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