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I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#explain #get #i #stage #until

I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#britain #cause #charity #donate #equipment

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#every #favorite #gig #had #i

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#done #even #four #good #heard

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#benchmark #garden #gone #haven #madison

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#career #going #got #great #long

We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#album #america #big #big thing #doing

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#amazing #around #beauty #benchmark #bits

Work cures everything. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#everything #work

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#humblest #nature #painter #scholar #scholars