Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Isaac Hanson - Page 2

You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.

I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.

We've always been proud of what we've done.

We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.

In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.

My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.

When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.

Our songs all carry the same way.

I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'

Texas is a pretty free state.

At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.

It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.

The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.

There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.

There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.

Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.

Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'

Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.

There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.

We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

We were writing songs about girls when we still thought girls had cooties.

I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.

You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.

Love is giving up your needs for the sake of someone else, in some other words its sacrifice

None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever.

Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.

We went to see Lenny Kravitz last summer in Austin and he was awesome. His show was just awesome. I mean, like, when you see some of these great bands, you sit there and think, man, if only we were that tight, you know?