Leithauser Hamilton Quotes & Sayings

When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it. — Hamilton Leithauser

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. — Theodore Sturgeon

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes. — Steve Carlton

I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly. — Hamilton Leithauser

I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other. — Hamilton Leithauser

I was staying at my friend's house and he told me about the drug Prednisone. It took me 14 years to discover it. And there are a lot of times that would have helped me out over the years. I can't believe I'd never even heard of it, though. — Hamilton Leithauser

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. — Stephen Gardiner

The funny thing is that the studio that we recorded in was the same studio that Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole used to warm up their voices in before they went across the street to CBS Radio. The owner has preserved it exactly the way it was in 1925. It was such a perfect coincidence that we were doing music inspired by that stuff in that room. It was incredible. — Hamilton Leithauser

I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment. — Hamilton Leithauser

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all. — Hamilton Leithauser

You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing. — Hamilton Leithauser

I am too far gone to be rehabilitated. — Henry Rollins

I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts I write; the drums are kind of an afterthought. And who knows, maybe that will get boring, but right now that's the most interesting way for me. — Hamilton Leithauser

The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked. — Hamilton Leithauser

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument. — Alberto Fujimori

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool. — Hamilton Leithauser

I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard. — Hamilton Leithauser

I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not. — Hamilton Leithauser

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married. — Hamilton Leithauser

I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff. — Hamilton Leithauser

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments. — Eric Schneiderman

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship. — Erle Stanley Gardner

I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what I can, but no more than that. Just as I cannot breathe the breath of another or help the heart of someone else to beat or their bones not to weaken or their flesh not to shrivel, I cannot say more than I can say. And I know how deeply this disturbs them, and it would make me smile, this earnest need for foolish anecdote or sharp simple patterns in the story of what happened to us all, except that I have forgotten how to smile. — Colm Toibin

When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again." — Hamilton Leithauser

I currently do nothing, nothing except get almost purposefully and absolutely consciously bored with myself. — Virginia Woolf

I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere. — Hamilton Leithauser

Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job. — Hamilton Leithauser

When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting. — Hamilton Leithauser

I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform. — Daniel Breaker

We confess knowledge without certainty, truth without objectivity. — James K.A. Smith

The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is. — Hamilton Leithauser

I care about what the fans feel. — Dave Mustaine

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. — David Hanson

My friends just kept joking about all the horrible physical side effects [of Prednisone ]. I can only imagine that something that works that well has got to be bad for you. — Hamilton Leithauser

Ironically, I like working with people. — Hamilton Leithauser

I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend. — Hamilton Leithauser

When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting together just didn't feel very inspired, and doing it alone did. — Hamilton Leithauser

You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't want to do that again. You don't necessarily hate it, but you're a very different person now, so, in that way you do. — Hamilton Leithauser

Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie. — Hamilton Leithauser

The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus. — Mary Oliver