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Alex Ebert
American
Musician
Born:
May 12
,
1978
Around
Long
Music
People
Process
You
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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
Architecture
Try
Building
Seems
Almost
Like
Audience
Close
Greek
Place
Theater
Create
Connection
I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.
Alex Ebert
Music
Musicians
Songwriter
Around
Always
Been
End
Up
Who
Playing
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
Great
You
Cell Phone
Phone
Live
Think
Location
Berlin
Would
Would-Be
Able
Great Place
Were
Cell
Place
Central
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
Life
My Life
Definitely
Hop
About
Primary
Hip
Till
Hip-Hop
Least
Years
Listened
Influence
Far
Away
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
Life
Class
Better
My Life
Living
Relate
Consider
Would
Find
Somehow
Part
Sort
Because
Always
Up
Trying
Wanted
Grew
Much
Really
Manufacture
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
Old
Feeling
Become
Constantly
About
Contemplative
Always
Years
Very
Nostalgia
Fleeting
Moment
Filled
Present
Present Moment
Started
Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.
Alex Ebert
Losing
Our
Would
Record
Record Label
Put
Feel
New
Supposed
Dead
Him
Still
Been
Label
Heath
After
Little
Album
To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.
Alex Ebert
Lost
Part
Being
Legitimate
Process
Your
Found
It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.
Alex Ebert
Time
Me
Long
Long Time
Took
Onstage
Alright
Smiling
It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.
Alex Ebert
Darker
Crown
Put
Around
Answer
Want
Anymore
Them
Capitalize
Avoid
Moments
Necessarily
The album is a thing that you can hang out with between shows. I think that it's really nice to give people something they can enjoy in a private situation or walking around, just as the soundtrack of their lives.
Alex Ebert
You
People
Situation
Nice
Enjoy
Think
Out
Give
Something
Between
Around
Soundtrack
Private
Walking
Hang
Just
Really
Shows
Lives
Thing
Album
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
Alex Ebert
Music
Needs
You
People
Song
Writing
Remember
Major
Sort
Repeat
Popular
Popular Music
Chorus
Need
There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.
Alex Ebert
Great
Become
Examples
More
Songs
Great Songs
Covered
Famous
Many
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