Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Ed Robertson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian musician Ed Robertson.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Ed Robertson

Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the band Barenaked Ladies. He, along with former member Steven Page, founded the group in 1988. As of Page's departure in 2009, Robertson and bassist Jim Creeggan are the only remaining original members of the band.

People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with.
As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.
You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single. — © Ed Robertson
You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single.
I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little... it'll grow back!
I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.
I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.
I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.
I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.
I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.
Whoever thought the future would feel so much like the present?
I think we should start a movement, and everyone should just start wearing metal pants to the airport.
Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.
We have multi-generations coming to our show.
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.
'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.
If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'. — © Ed Robertson
If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.
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