We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me. Dan Hawkins More Quotes by Dan Hawkins More Quotes From Dan Hawkins It's an extremely high price but the location and the recent renovation of the hotel are going to command a historic value for the Washington, Washington DC, area. Dan Hawkins politics I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives. Dan Hawkins wait start myself travel You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better. Dan Hawkins better you keep-going together 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 live great think guitar 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 rest doing me world 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 you black beauty After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously. Dan Hawkins seriously london music school Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book. Dan Hawkins computer video terrible book When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer! Dan Hawkins hammer need will always As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to. Dan Hawkins live go gone want I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore. Dan Hawkins explain wait get stage I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for. Dan Hawkins early knowing age life I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music. Dan Hawkins never myself guitar music In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on. Dan Hawkins moment time country way 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 point started still starting The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be. Dan Hawkins big things great think 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 good late night people 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 seriously will garden play We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music. Dan Hawkins music time long people When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now. Dan Hawkins fast everything nervous energy
