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With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.

~Eliot Sumner

Topics: Any Anymore Anyway Attention Attention Span Days Everyone Everything Information Know Needs Networks People Problem Short Social Social Networks Span Time Used

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I think everyone's got an obstacle in their career that they have to challenge. I think, in a way, that pushes you to prove who you are.

~Eliot Sumner

Topics: Career Challenge Everyone Got Obstacle Prove Pushes Think Way Who You I Think

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I knew I wasn't going to write a record as soon as I got signed, because I hadn't had any life experiences. I was still at school, and I wasn't going to write about that.

~Eliot Sumner

Topics: About Any Because Experiences Going Got Had Knew Life Life Experiences Record School Signed Soon Still Write

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Music is the only thing that I trust.

~Eliot Sumner

Topics: Music Only The Only Thing Thing Trust

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I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling.

~Eliot Sumner

Topics: Abstract Even Exactly Feel Feeling Hear Interpret Lot Make More Own People Slightly Song Songs Special Them Think Way Written You I Think I Feel

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I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.

~Eliot Sumner

Topics: Blame Did Me Never Really Recognized Sound Very Young

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I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

~Eliot Sumner

Topics: Bored Could Guitar Never Picked Then Up

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I would make documentaries if it was a worthy cause. I have a lot of respect for people who put themselves in harm's way to make people see that something needs to be done.

~Eliot Sumner

Topics: Cause Documentaries Done Harm Lot Make Needs People Put Respect See Something Themselves Way Who Worthy Would

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I don't particularly like attention. I like to do things on my own. I like to dress myself. People always ask that at shoots: 'Do you want any help?' That's the weirdest question.

~Eliot Sumner

Topics: Always Any Ask Attention Dress Help Like My Own Myself Own Particularly People Question Shoots Things Want Weirdest You

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I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention.

~Eliot Sumner

Topics: Am Attention Better Just Listener Look Much Myself Really Shy Speaker Than Think Too Too Much Wish I Am

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: July 30th, 1990

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