Top 75 Isaac Hanson Quotes

People my age don’t always know where their music comes from.

Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.

At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we’ve also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late ’50s and early ’60s rock n’ roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that’s just always been who we were. As much as we’ve evolved, that’s stayed the same.

Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing.

I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

I’m doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

We’ve always been proud of what we’ve done.

We legitimately walked into ‘Anthem’ head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.

You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn’t one of them.

Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

I’ve got angels watching out for me.

Luckily, I’m in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.

I’m a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you’ve got to temper it because your fans are there, and they’ve paid good money to see a show.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

Our songs all carry the same way.

Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.

People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music – not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.

I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I’ve got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.

The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it’s the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways.

When we show up in a city, we ask, ‘Where’s the best restaurant? What’s the best beer?’ You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome.

I joke that we’re not dissimilar to a rock band in the ’70s.

There are some seminal things that happened in the ’70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.

We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.

My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.

If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they’re going to have to want it more than anyone else.

We’re Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

Kids will ask us ‘How do you become famous?’ It’s the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we’re a lot more rooted in a lot of music history… we’re songwriters, we’re singers, we’re players first. We’re not entertainers, we’re not celebrities, and frankly, we don’t really want to be.

It’s really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.

We’ve sold over 100,000 records so far, and we’re an independent label.

You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

‘Anthem’ was the record that almost didn’t get made for a completely different reason than ‘Underneath.’

In some ways, Australian fans are more dedicated and more enthusiastic than some of our most loyal fans in the U.S.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It’s fun, it’s a great job, but it’s work.

The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.

We didn’t want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.

Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.

Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.

What’s really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He’s stronger than me.

We said from the very beginning that we’re in this for the long haul.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it’s almost impossible to pick one.

There’s something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They’ll sell in order to get a cash advance.

As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans’ willingness to show up.

Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.

‘MMMBop’ took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.

Hanson will be associated with ‘MMMBop’ and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are associated with mop tops and suits.

We’ve done enough – and made enough mistakes – to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it’s not only about the music.

I’m a proud family man.

The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

Don’t misunderstand good manners for passivity.

‘MMMbop’ ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you’ll have the in the face of challenge and strife.

Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.

Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that ‘Middle of Nowhere,’ ‘Mmmbop’ and ‘Where Is the Love’ are good places to start for us. I don’t think it’s a bad place.

There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.

There’s no problem with fans and bands. There’s a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what ‘MMMBop’ and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing ‘MMMBop.’

We pushed our first record, ‘Boomerang,’ to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the ‘white guys singing R&B’ thing.