Isaac Hanson Quotes
United States, Musician
Clarke Isaac Hanson was born on November 17, 1980 (age 37) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the eldest of the three brothers in Hanson, and was eleven when the band started in 1992. He sings both backup and lead vocals, and plays electric and acoustic guitar, as well as the piano, bass and the synthesizer. Isaac married Nicole Dufresne on 30 September 2006 in Tulsa at the Philbrook Museum of Art. Isaac met Dufresne after spotting her in the fifth row of a crowd at their 2003 New Orleans concert.
Also known as Singer-Songwriter, Vocalist, Guitarist
At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome.
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.
Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing.
You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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.
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.
In some ways, Australian fans are more dedicated and more enthusiastic than some of our most loyal fans in the U.S.
It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
We've always believed in our music.
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.
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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.
No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
I'm a proud family man.
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