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Top 25 Ben Gibbard Quotes (2025 Update)

Ben Gibbard Quote: “And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.”

1. “And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I’m a war of head versus heart, it’s always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.”

2. “I’m a war of head versus heart, it’s always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.”

3. “I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can’t stand us, and people who absolutely can’t live without us. I’d rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.”

4. “Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can’t stand us, and people who absolutely can’t live without us. I’d rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I don’t spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself – and if other people like it, that’s great.”

5. “I don’t spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself – and if other people like it, that’s great.”

— Ben Gibbard

Ben Gibbard Quote: “You can’t please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.”

6. “You can’t please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they’ve just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it’s just because they love doing it and they love each other and that’s the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.”

7. “Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they’ve just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it’s just because they love doing it and they love each other and that’s the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “More times than not, it’s a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.”

8. “More times than not, it’s a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I’ve covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don’t think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.”

9. “I’ve covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don’t think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It’s a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.”

10. “You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It’s a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could’ve taken. I don’t think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...”

11. “At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could’ve taken. I don’t think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I feel like there’s a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that’s not really a place I’m ready to go to for a while. I’m interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone – I’m just not interested in making another dark, dark album.”

12. “I feel like there’s a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that’s not really a place I’m ready to go to for a while. I’m interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone – I’m just not interested in making another dark, dark album.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “The second ‘Postal Service’ album is threatening to become the ‘Chinese Democracy’ of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won’t.”

13. “The second ‘Postal Service’ album is threatening to become the ‘Chinese Democracy’ of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won’t.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.”

14. “To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I’ve always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He’s a great vocalist.”

15. “I’ve always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He’s a great vocalist.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I’m not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who’s not a baseball player.”

16. “I’m not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who’s not a baseball player.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.”

17. “A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We’ll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.”

18. “Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We’ll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I’d always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, “I will never live in fear again.””

19. “There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I’d always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, “I will never live in fear again.””

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn’t get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don’t even want.”

20. “I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn’t get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don’t even want.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “There’s a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.”

21. “There’s a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I don’t want to be overdramatic about it, but I’m starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.”

22. “I don’t want to be overdramatic about it, but I’m starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of ‘Plans’ came out of samples and vocal lines.”

23. “I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of ‘Plans’ came out of samples and vocal lines.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they’re twirling around me at the time.”

24. “I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they’re twirling around me at the time.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late ’50s, early ’60s kind of world.”

25. “I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late ’50s, early ’60s kind of world.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “As a songwriter, I’m not necessarily writing about myself or my life.”

26. “As a songwriter, I’m not necessarily writing about myself or my life.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “I just rediscovered my guitar.”

27. “I just rediscovered my guitar.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I’ve always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I’ve always loved it and I like how those words sound together.”

28. “Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I’ve always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I’ve always loved it and I like how those words sound together.”

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Ben Gibbard Quote: “Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.”

29. “Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.”

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