Ian Williams Quotes & Sayings

“There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.”

“I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.”

“Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.”

“I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.”

“I'm too tasteful for my pants.”

“We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.”

“I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.”

“This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.”

“I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.”

“It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.”