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The following quotes were ripped fresh off of bootlegs, interviews, etc. If you have anything noteworthy to contribute to this page, feel free to pass them along to us.


Audience member: "California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade"!

Colin: "So any uh...Love Tractor sightings recently to speak of..."

(audience is silent)

Colin: "Are they still together?"

(silence)

Colin: "They don't do live reunion shows ever?"

(more silence)

Colin: "None?"

(more silence)

Colin: "Do you know who Love Tractor is?" (laughter)

Colin: "No? Oh..."

Rachel: "Pylon?"

(audience screams)

Audience member: "California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade"!

Audience member #2: "Odalisque"!

Chris: "Yeah Odalisque I think broke up. They don't live here anymore though. They moved away."

Audience member #3: "Legionnaire"!

Chris: "Legionnaire I heard, those guys are washed up."

Colin: "That's Funk...you give the man a mic..."

-Live at 40 Watt in Athens, GA 032204


Colin (doing "My Mother Was A Trapeze Artist" solo): "To follow his dream to start up a punk rock band in South Carolina."

(audience cheers -- song stops)

Colin: "That's not here! This is Georgia."

(audience cheers him on)

Colin: "Uhhh...but I get letters sometimes..."

-Live at 40 Watt in Athens, GA 032204


After doing a cover of Outfield's "Your Love" with Chris Funk leading:

Colin: "Ok we're actually gonna do one more, it's so hard to follow that."

(laughter)

Colin: "Uh, now I know how the Outfield felt."

(laughter)

Colin: "You gotta put it on that setlist, you're not gonna wanna put that one well when you're in the Outfield too early on."

(laughter)

Colin: "You're just gonna ruin everything that comes afterwards!"

Chris: "Everybody leaves."

Colin: "Everybody just leaves. I'm surprised you're still here."

Chris: "We just did it in Austin and I got signed and the band got dropped."

(laughter)

Colin: "I know you've been waiting here all night for that number and now that you've got your money's worth, you're free to leave."

Chris: "Those in the know..."

-Live at 40 Watt in Athens, GA 032204


"Thank you so much. (audience screams) We're the Decemberists and we're from Portland, Oregon and the last time were here, we were here on New Year's Eve (audience screams)...and we were soused."

(audience screams)

-Colin Meloy, at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle 012204


Colin: "So this next song we have never ever ever played before anyone. (audience screams) In fact, umm I'm gonna have to open another bottle of beer just to be able to play."

Rachel: "We just learned it today."

Colin: "Yeah so if we get the changes wrong even though it's a handful of like five chords, forgive them because I know the chords."

Rachel: "Forgive you?"

-Live at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, CA 100703


Colin: "Ummm...so, how, uh...are the elections in then?"

(nervous laughter)

Colin: "Ohhhhh...oh is it bad?"

(audience members say "Yeah, it's bad.")

Colin: "I haven't even heard -- it's bad? Nooooo...I am so sorry."

(laughter)

Colin: "I don't even know, I, there's nothing I can say at this point...okay."

Audience member: "You're making us feel better!"

"Okay, okay -- here! This will make you feel better!!"

(laughter)

Colin: "A slow, downtempo, sad song from our new release."

-Live at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, CA 100703


How did it [the show] compare to other shows that you guys have been playing on this tour?
"People were decidedly more sober I think, not that we always play to drunkards..."
-Colin Meloy in an interview on UC Santa Cruz's KZSC 88.1FM


"...There's odd things that pop up, like we just got an email of somebody who got a Decemberists tattoo, which is sort of a first, but it kind of panicked us at first. It's a great-looking tattoo, it's one of Carson's drawings and then a line from a song and we're really touched and flattered..." -Colin Meloy in an interview on UC Santa Cruz's KZSC 88.1FM


"Apparently, Japanese acupuncturists are really into scars. So mine is psyched."
-Chris Funk in an interview with The Oregonian's Chelsea Cain



"I'm hoping that in the next few years we can consider ourselves enlightened enough to extend the relatively quaint right to marry to all citizens, regardless of their sexual denomination."

"No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love."

-Colin Meloy, from Under The Radar



"I just can't see how tolerance and liberalism are such dirty words to people in my country." -Colin Meloy on the outcome of the 2004 US Presidential elections, http://www.varsity.co.uk