55 Quotes by Ted Dwane

You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands.

We started off as Marcus Mumford, which is our singer's name. But then it very quickly became apparent it wasn't really a one-man thing: it was indeed a band. We wanted to give the impression of a family business, and we just liked the ring of Mumford & Sons.

Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy.

We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music.

We don't read a lot of what people say about us.

There's not a lot to hide behind when you make the sort of music we make.

We have this spirit that's just uncrushable.

I play the drums really, really badly.

I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations.