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Taylor Hanson Quotes
| "A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music." |
| "Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet." |
| "People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma." |
| "Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played." |
| "Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check." |
| "To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world." |
| "You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do." |
| "You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do." |
| "You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you." |
| "Ike thinks about girls ALL the time" |
| "The girls aren't screaming at you. They're screaming at the fact you're in a band and they hear you on the radio. It's not like you're special." |
| "Music is unavoidable in our house." |
| "People are really wild. They write these fantasies about how they met us, how they did this with us or that with us - these complete elaborations - like it really happened!" |
| "I am a guy but i am NOT going to pull my pants down to prove it!" |
| "How much better a job could you possibly have than to be in a band for your whole life?" |
| "It's great being good friends with your brothers.Then you've got friends for life" |
| "You have to know what you want and keep going for it" |
| "You have to like yourself before you can do anything!" |
| "We read our fan mail-whenever we can.We love reading the mail!" |
| "If a cute girl was being bullied, I'm a fighter." |
| "Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car." |
| "Our family's ethinic background is Danish.That explains our love for Lego!" |
| "I think the Bee Gees have stayed on top because they're dressed in such tight pants." |
| "Sometimes you wake up and go 'Hey, what day is it?'" |
| "However you want to do it, it's your own game" |
| "The coolest thing about our fans is that they're devoted...but psycho." |
| "Sometimes it feels like the girls aren't screaming at us; they're screaming at some band called Hanson they saw on TV," |
| "Everybody has their own opinion, that's part of life. It's fine, you know?" |
| "Actually, my voice is pretty much done changing, but it was pretty bad when we were making the album." |
| "If somebody's obsessed with you, It would be kind of hard to go out with her. You'd take her hand and she'd scream! But if she was nice enough, yeah, I'd date a fan." |
| "I might be one wild rock 'n' roller... but you wouldn't catch me peeing in public" |
| "I'm not a girl but I won't pull my pants down to prove it." |
| "I wouldn't say we opened the door of pop music again. I'd say music opened it and we were allowed to get in." |
| "We were coming out of a radio station, and there were about 2,000 people outside this station, and this 40-year-old woman jumps and grabs at my hair! I'm going, 'Have some control, woman!'" |
| "I used to be able to say 'great Dr. Pepper taste' in a burp" |
| "Part of what Hanson is, is that there's not just one guy who sings. Having three voices is what makes us Hanson" |
| "Put is this way: We got the drums and the instruments and a week later we played live. But that doesn't mean we were good when we played live, it just means we got out there and did it." |
| "There was an outdoor barbecue going on and all these industry people were there. We would just walk up to them and say 'Can we sing for you'" |
| "We're three guys who write, play, and sing our music... That's what Hanson is." |
| "It is the message. Not the messanger." |
| "I always want to tell people off who don't do their job right, but I never do. We're always saying we will shout at someone but we wimp out." |
| "Everyone was staring at us and pointing and we felt like freaks in a zoo." |
| "If I saw a band like this, the first thing I would say is FAKE! They were put together." |
| "We don't drink any pop because you know what that means...Pimples!" |
| "If there's a girl who's a fan and she's a bit crazy, you are not going to go out with her." |
| "We're not doing this because we want girls to scream at us, but they can scream if they want!" |
| "We get a laugh from dropping waterbombs out of windows. It's innocent fun and we don't mean anything by it." |
| "Zac is the funny one, the crazy one, the insane one. He's very cool onstage. He's also got some sad, deep songs where you go, 'How old is he?'" |
| "I think there is a chemistry between two people, and no one can explain it. The two may have nothing in common, but they just like each other. It's mother nature taking its course." |
| "Sometimes I go away and just write a poem or even a song. Lots of people think that we only deal with situations in our songs which we've experienced ourselves, but that's not true. The songs I write are about my dreams and wishes, too." |
| "Listen to the music and forget about how young we are...forget that we have long blond hair and blue eyes...it's just the music." |
| "We get along pretty well. We're not like Oasis. We don't fight all the time." |
| "I often go off into my own little world. At least that's what Isaac and Zac say. There is some truth in it, though. I like to think very carefully about everything. For this I need peace and qiet so that I can really 'catch up' with myself again. But even when I can't be alone it isn't difficult for me to swtich off - that's when my brothers always say I'm in my little 'Taylor World' again." |
| "It may not be fun at the time, but if cameras follow you around everywhere, the minute that ends, you'll wish it was there." |
| "We're weird in a way, it's not every kid who sings with his brothers for a living." |
| "I think life is more nerve wracking than performing in front of people." |
| "That's the coolest thing - seeing people react when you play live." |
| "The worst thing we've done is loogieing (spitting) on people from hotel balconies. I hit someone the other day - that was pretty cool!" |
| "For us, it's not about sex and drugs, it's about rock and roll." |
| "My wife has the rights to my sperm these days!" |
| "Having Ezra is the best thing we've ever done. Life and art are all about these moments." |
| "Girls are very inspirational, they are just made that way." |
| "Let's put it this way. You wouldn't just go up to a fan and lay one on 'em!" |
| "Everyone needs a good spanking sometimes." |
| "My name's Jordan, but Taylor makes my eyes bluer." |
| "Yo momma's so fat she got more chins than a chinese phone book!" |
| "You can't expect success - you can only hope for it." |
| "Zac and Ike are like my two best friends, only better" |
| "Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car." |
| "It's hard to break up, because if we did, we'd see each other every day anyway!" |
| "I'm the quiet one, obviously." |
| "We're known as ike, tay, and zac, not posh, spicy, rare, butter, or whatever they are." |
| "My piano teacher didn't like me, I banged" |
| "Don't spew on the audience! Bad move." |
| "I get embarrased really easily. We were at a McDonalds once, and we were waiting in line to order our food. All of a sudden there was whispering going up and down the line. People were saying "Hanson...Taylor" and things like that. No one said anything to me. They just whispered. And I was standing there. In the end I just got my food and ran out." |
| "The internet is basically just a giant gossip session." |
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