Tony Kanal Quotes

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The interesting thing is that as soon as Gwen said, 'Le

The interesting thing is that as soon as Gwen said, ‘Let’s go on the road,’ we were all like, ‘Let’s go on the road!’ Four adults turned into four giggly children.
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The fact that our band has weathered so much and stayed together for so long and we still get on stage and have a good time together, that’s a big deal for us. We don’t take that for granted.
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Think about being onstage playing these songs. I’m opening my personal life up to all these people. But I just can’t get attached. I’ve got to separate myself from the music and lyrics.
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We judge everything we do by the Clash and U2.
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You don’t have to be singing songs about angst and pain to be credible.
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Look, the Jamaican dancehall stuff, the reggae influences and the ska influence, are always going to be part of our DNA.
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We want to sound modern, but we’re still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands.
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To be abundantly clear, No Doubt is four people, and that could never be recreated or replicated.
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The ‘Beacon Street‘ record was kind of like a b-side to ‘Tragic Kingdom,’ but it came out before ‘Tragic Kingdom,’ so it’s a weird situation.
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So, I went to see No Doubt play on March 14, 1987 at the show at Fender‘s Ballroom in Long Beach, California. A week later I tried out and I joined the band and that was obviously a completely incredible thing for me and a life changing moment.
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We would write our songs, then we’d have a programmer come in and add, for lack of a better term, bloops and bleeps on top of everything. Of course, the funny thing is that a lot of the modern-day dance music people are super-influenced by the ’70s and ’80s stuff that we already love. So it was a natural fit for No Doubt.
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When we started, we were in a van and looking for change under the seats so we could buy food. We went from that to having a hit and getting to do things like make music videos with million-dollar budgets.
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We never forget we’re all in this together. But Gwen’s an incredible performer and she deserves all the attention she gets.
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There’s something to be said for perseverance. We’ve been sticking it out a long time.
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As pop songs, the early stuff like Electricity‘ and Enola Gay‘ were such inspirations to Gwen and I, especially melodically. They inspired us to try and do our own John Hughes prom-scene movie moment kind of songs.
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Starting out, you‘re just doing it because you love it so much; that’s what I remember about us. Looking back now, some of the things that seemed like big obstacles seem so small now – ‘Wow, how will we get through this?’ But we always did.
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One of the most important things you need when you’re doing big shows, like Rock in Rio, is consistency, and that starts with the sound in your ears. If it isn’t just right, it throws you off and makes it hard to focus on the music and the performance.
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You can do a small club show and the energy is so contained. Then you play these big festivals, and have 50,000 people waving their hands in the air with you.
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I think Gwen, in her lyrics, always touches on personal subject matter.
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We know how fickle the public and the music industry is.
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We would say, OK, the B section isn’t good enough, let’s rewrite that,’ until we felt the song was great.
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I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music.
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It’s a different world now. You look out there and you can see so many people filming with their cameras nowadays. I can go on YouTube and see last night‘s show if I want to. It’s out there.
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Just by default, because I don’t have kids on my bus, I’m putting the studio on my bus. Where everybody else is doing their cribs on their bus, I’ll have a little studio, so I’m going to invite my bandmates, on days off, to come and keep writing so we can continue the creative process and keep it going through the tour.
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We travel with two personal trainers.
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The one thing I’ll say about Dreamcar and the music we’ve created is that we never set out to do anything specific.
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If your fans are comfortable, then people are going to be stoked to be there.
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No Doubt will always be there; we’ve experienced things together that no one else will ever experience with us. It’s a family that will always be there, and the music we’ve created will always be there.
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We wrote the early idea for Undone‘ but it just wasn’t working. Then Gwen had to go to England for some family stuff and when she was there, she sent me an email saying that she had an idea for what to do with Undone.’ She sent me these demos and she was totally right, there was something there.
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In our minds maybe we think we’re younger than we actually are.
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We came from that whole school of thinking that you give people 150 percent every time.
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It’s exciting because No Doubt has never played Rock in Rio before. It’s actually an honor to be a part of such an iconic festival and the really cool thing is that the lineup is so diverse and it’s got something for everyone.
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There’s a different beauty to big and small audiences, and I don’t think one is better.
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It’s honestly all about the audience and if they’re having a good time.
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One of the best things about being in a band for so long and having any level of success is the opportunity to go and play in different creative sandboxes.
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It’s the little things that stick with you though. Like the boring airport layovers and the bus breaking down in Prague. Those were the real bonding moments.
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Gwen is someone that girls can look up to and feel like they know. She is very Everygirl.
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Using the computer to record was a cool way to keep all the original ideas intact.
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We had such a small budget making our first record, and the only way we could make it work was that the record company would find studio time in the middle of the night – literally, that was so cheap that we could afford to do it.
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We would spend every morning drinking rum and Cokes or Red Stripes for breakfast, to get our heads in the right space. It’s a wonder we got stuff done.
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As far as scalping goes, I don’t think you’ll ever be able to eliminate it.
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There’s no way to escape who we are.
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It’s not We’re an awesome band.’ The bottom line is, we’re just very fortunate.
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We played one show in Bangalore in a field where they’d never had a rock show before and when we got there, they were actually cutting the grass with scissors.
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No Doubt is a very specific thing that’s comprised of Tom and Adrian and myself and Gwen, and it will always be that way.
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One of the reasons this record took so long to come out is that we withstood a lot of pressures and we were unwilling to compromise on a lot of things. ‘Tragic Kingdom’ is a battleground. It was the outcome of three years of struggle.
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For us, the music is the most important thing that we’re doing. But we also like to give that energy to the crowd, because what they do is take it and give it right back to you.
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It’s always hard to talk about music and describe a song.
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Songwriting is such an intimate thing, and with people you don’t normally write with, you’re naked.
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