60 Quotes by Taylor Goldsmith

Laurel Canyon and Dawes have become linked in a way that I think is misguided, frankly, to tell a new fan what we sound like. But at one point maybe it wasn't.

You write a song; you know what you want it to sound like. With a band like ours, it's more about the collective. It's important everyone feels expressed and represented.

I think there are ways a place can sneak its way into a song, or a feeling that you take into the studio.

For me, I definitely like quiet; I like to write alone.

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.

Like for me, it's funny that I have ended up in so many side projects because I have always looked at any song that I write as a Dawes song.

And so to me, I've always thought the kinds of fans that I want is the kind of fan that I am, which is when I subscribe to an artist, I'm yours. I'm on board.

Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to hold a guitar and get to sing.

I know a lot of bands that will make their first record and get to a certain level, and then when the second record comes out, they can start where they left off as a headlining act playing in front of a certain number of people, or they can go back out and make a lot less money and open for people.