New Amsterdams Quotes

I’m Eric, I play upright bass.
Eric

Yeah, one of the things we all agree on is uh… Kurt Vonnegut novels, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash… [laughs] Elvis Costello, Hank Williams…
Matt (on influences)

There is, creatively, like with this outfit, I think so. We’re just, really the tip of the iceberg as far as that goes, I mean we wrote this record in two or three months and recorded it in 6 days, and we’ve already written and started recording the next album after that, so we’re always finding new things to do, and that’s what’s really exciting.
Matt

It seems like Montreal has a really good music scene, a lot of bands that we like are from here… Arcade Fire, Broken Social, Feist... Is Of Montreal from Montreal, actually?
Matt

It’s bullshit! There are thousand of people out there that could be doing exactly what you’re doing, and if you are a nice person people will want to come back to you. If they don’t respect you, they’ll go to the next person who can do it just as good. That was Chris Potter, best advice I’ve had.
Eric