Ben Gibbard

American singer, songwriter and guitarist · United States · On the map · Musicians · Born 1976 · age 50

Benjamin Gibbard is an American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded eleven studio albums, and as a member of the indie pop supergroup The Postal Service.

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2008“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.”In their words8 October 2008SPIN magazineRead the whole statement

“If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that’s all you read, like you don’t know anything else about literature.”In their words10 April 2008Essay in Paste magazineRead the whole statement

“I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on.”In their words10 April 2008IIRead the whole statement

“It’s amazing to have people singing a song back to you on a stage. It’s great to finish recording a song and play it for your friend, and they love it. That feels good.”In their words10 April 2008IIRead the whole statement

“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.”In their words10 April 2008IIRead the whole statement

“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.”In their words10 April 2008IIIRead the whole statement

1976Born11 August 1976

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I pulled On The Road off the shelf and found myself reading it between classes, and at that time in my life it was exactly what I craved, exactly what I needed to hear.
10 April 2008 · Essay in Paste magazine, Own words
Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.
10 April 2008 · II, Own words
Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life.
10 April 2008 · II, Own words