You Never Win, You Never Lose: Talking with Gabriel Birnbaum
Gabriel Birnbaum discusses his new album, NOT ALONE.
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...moreIt’s good to know I’ll always be prepared for what’s out there.
...moreEven though it’s all backed up, I worry about losing it all.
...more[T]he one thing I wake up next to, that I couldn’t imagine living without, isn’t an object at all. It’s a dog.
...moreWhen I’m away touring, my clothes are my connection to home, my way of feeling myself.
...more[T]he most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a mindset—or maybe it’s an ideology.
...moreWhat I write in my journals is a personal record of the events in my life, and my reactions to them.
...moreIf you’re doing what makes you happy, it’s easier for you to be happy, and if you’re lucky, to make others happy too.
...moreIt’s like a landscape that you can’t know until you’ve seen it through four seasons, until you’ve seen it on days gray and bright.
...moreWhat I want/need/love most is to be with my family.
...moreIt was kind of nice to have something no one else had, something you couldn’t just pick up at any old big box store.
...moreThe stuff I’ve saved over the years aren’t just mementos of the past. They’re also reflections of the memories my friends and I have made together.
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