Dan Smith Quotes

When they're singing the guitar lines of songs in South America? Never heard that before. And in Canada, when they're singing all of the lyrics to every song - that blows me away. I don't know all the lyrics to every song.

Epitaph is the place to be! They were all longtime, true fans of New Found Glory and they understand us.

It's really cool to see people show up at the shows night after night, and they're screaming the words of the song.

We just love international music. We love the climate of that sound, it's that pulse that we just have to appreciate.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

I've been loving music all my life.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

Country fans are the most loyal in the world.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower... just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I'm doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not.

I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.

I've been a legitimate fan of Keith Urban's for a long time and have been to a bunch of his concerts.

I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.

I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!

I don't know that there's a division between American and British, European, South American, Asian sensibilities when it comes to rock n' roll or, really, any form of music. Songs travel, and people take them into their lives in all different kinds of unpredictable and really untraceable ways.

I've been in love with music since I was old enough to establish my taste.