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It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

~Alex Ebert

Topics: Alright Long Long Time Me Onstage Smiling Time Took

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From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.

~Alex Ebert

Topics: About Always Become Constantly Contemplative Feeling Filled Fleeting Moment Nostalgia Old Present Present Moment Started Very Years

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I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid.

~Alex Ebert

Topics: Academy Academy Awards Around Attention Awards Come Kid Pay Pay Attention Them Used Watch Watched While

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I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.

~Alex Ebert

Topics: Community Culture Edward Hope Love Mainstream Music Now Optimism Part Sense Strangest Think Time Where You I Think

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I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

~Alex Ebert

Topics: Always Around Been End Music Musicians Playing Songwriter Up Who

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In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

~Alex Ebert

Topics: Almost Architecture Audience Building Close Connection Create Greek Like Place Seems Theater Try

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I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.

~Alex Ebert

Topics: Atmosphere Campfire Creates Doing Feel Feeling Give Hanging Hear Hear People Library Like Little More Music Opposed Out Participation People Songs Try You

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Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.

~Alex Ebert

Topics: Able Berlin Cell Cell Phone Central Great Great Place Live Location Phone Place Think Were Would You I Think

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Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

~Alex Ebert

Topics: About Away Definitely Far Hip Hip Hop Hop Influence Least Life Listened My Life Primary Till Years

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For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'

~Alex Ebert

Topics: Always Because Better Class Consider Find Grew Life Living Manufacture Much My Life Part Really Relate Somehow Sort Trying Up Wanted Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 12th, 1978

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