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Jonathan Meiburg

Jonathan Meiburg is an American musician and writer, best known as the lead singer and songwriter for Shearwater.

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The thing is that honestly we haven't had an audience. And we have a chance to have an audience now. Which is great because I think we've sort of evolved as a band to the point where I think we might actually be interesting to go see.

Band, Chance, Interesting, Thing, Thinking

I still get stage fright every time. I also feel very, very sleepy about a minute before we go on. Like I feel like I'm going to fall asleep. I can't explain it. It's sort of like, "Where's the energy going to come from to play this show?" Then all of a sudden you step up and there it is, it's like it's waiting for you.

Asleep, Energy, Fall, Like, Waiting

I don't consider myself a very religious person in any.

Person, Persons, Religious, Religious Person

I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured. . . so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.

Clear, Focus, Having, Kind

I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the pagaentry of it remained with me. The aesthetic I really love. I think a lot of my sense of melody comes from singing those hymns and doing the renaissance music and stuff.

Children, Hymns, Impressed, Love, Thinking

I do like the old versions of our songs - there are good things in them, but I think that the good things that happen in the new ones kind of outweigh that. The murkiness of the first version of the record was not really what we'd intended. It has sort of a dream-like quality, but I feel like that has been preserved in other ways in the newer versions, as well as the bonus disc.

Kind, Outweigh, Quality, Song, Thinking

You feel the camaraderie that you're all driving around in vans, you know, engaged in musical enterprise. It's pretty much the same for everybody except for the 40 minutes that you're on the stage. Other than that, I do feel like we're off on our own path. It's sort of exciting.

Driving, Minutes, Musical, Path, Pretty

When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.

Certain, Hit, Letting Go, Point, Records, Trust

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want.

Band, Nice, Thing, Want

I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities that kind of counterbalance each other.

Awhile, Counterbalance, Dealing, Kind, Musician, Quality

I feel like we've kind of gone through a transformation in the past year. I don't know what happened but we've somehow gelled in a way that we never have before. The live show has become much more powerful and interesting to me. I really feel like we're learning to negotiate the dynamics of it and keep it interesting. It feels like we're becoming much more comfortable and in tune with one another.

Become, Interesting, Kind, Past, Powerful

I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the gear so much anymore.

Like, Nice, Piano, Room, Sound

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want, you know? Without catching hell for it. That's sort of how we felt about the re-recording, too. I thought, "Well, you know a few people noticed this record the first time around but not so many will really protest if we do it again. "

Felt, Hell, Know, Nice, People

I felt like the last record was a real step forward for us. I was very pleased to see some people saying the same things - that it was a real departure, that it was much more individual, that it sort of a power of its own. I really did feel those things very strongly, it's our most realized record.

Departure, Felt, Individual, Like, People, Real

It may be a product of me being raised in episcopal church, but I have a love for ritual and theater and the significance of doing the exact same thing over and over. So I really love knowing every little thing I'm going to do during a show.

Church, Knowing, Love, May, Significance

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

Emotional, Kind, Narrating, Stories, Thing, Way