Aldous Harding Quotes

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I think there’s strength in seeing somebody who‘s not necessarily winning at life… to make something that makes people feel like they’ve won when they hear it.

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If people say to me, ‘So, what were you doing in Dubai in that song?’ or they spend ages comparing me to some other singer, I just shut down, I guess.

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I like reading things where someone‘s looked at what I do with some honesty, and maybe been challenged by it, and they have something to say that shows they’ve thought about it, even if they don’t necessarily like it.

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I’m optimistic but I’m also not stupid.

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My head is full of songs I’m writing now, and things I am thinking now. I’m not very good at drawing on things that have happened, things I think might happen, or things I want to happen. I’m very much in right now.

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Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.

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I’m definitely not above wanting to be liked. Because, I mean, that feels less… lonely? But to be honest, because it was never my dream, I live quite a pressure-less existence, y’know. And of course, that’s not true, but it’s partly true.

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I can be anything.

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Because I’m a nobody, surely it’s an interesting thing or a nice thing to see a nobody or just a regular person do things that makes you question your taste and feel things.

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When it comes to a specific sound, I don’t feel like there’s something I need to worry about. I’d much rather do something creative and credible. Like, ‘Who am I? What am I trying to say? What do I stand for?’ I stand for all of it, because I feel all of it, like everybody.

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Designer‘ is meant to mean whatever it means.

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My family used to put on a small folk festival.

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You should see my stepdad’s face when he‘s lifting something. It’s the scariest thing I’ve ever seen! So you can’t expect, just because I’m a potentially pretty person, that I won’t allow myself to try out emotional states that might make me look ugly to some people.

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I’m just focused on getting to the end of each show and feeling like we’ve done a good job when we walk off stage. And a perfect show isn’t necessarily about making the audience feel good. I know I’ve done my job well if I’ve made people feel… interesting. I like to leave them a little stunned.

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I want to be well enough to enjoy the things I’ve made.

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Wales is a lot like New Zealand.

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That’s what I look for in music anyway: I want someone to confuse me to the point where I look inwards rather than at what they’re doing.

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I believe in myself enough to not get hung up on what other people are doing, or what I should be writing, or the nature of how I’m writing. I’m just able.

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I’ve always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.

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I write songs for the same reasons most artists write songs -because I have to, whatever that means. Because I want to talk about myself or have demos that need to be sent off. I like doing it. It’s my job and I like doing it. For the most part, it’s pretty easy for me.

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I had a little radio next to the bed and I’d just listen to the top 10 – I mean, it was crap but I was young – and I would get up in the dark with the moon coming in through the window and I would just dance in my pajamas in the dark to the top 10. I didn’t have a CD player… so it was kind of all I had, you know?

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You know, we’ve had some pretty rough festival stages.

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I enjoy doing the thing that I find interesting really well.

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My music’s doing things, out there in the world, and that’s a very positive feeling, you know? I haven‘t had a job I’ve been this good at or this excited about since I was a dog groomer!

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I don’t think about why I do what I do, or why I started doing what I do, because I’m so obsessed with doing it right now, and what it means to me right now.

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I’m focused on my future. I’m ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

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I’m trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

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I don’t know a lot about art and music culture.

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I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

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As a kid I remember being frightened all of the time, and kind of sad. I was certainly troubled. But a lot of people were, y’know? I don’t really know how to measure my trouble against somebody else‘s.

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I don’t really remember a lot of my childhood.

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I knew what I liked, but I was never really obsessed with filling my life with music.

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I don’t need to hide behind anything because I’m more comfortable with myself.

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