Hanson Quotes
"If people read our lyrics, we'd be known for that... It's writing happy songs that are truly sad." -Zac
"We're three guys who write, play, and sing our music. That's what Hanson is." -Taylor "The internet is basically a giant gossip session." - Isaac "We're just here to make music and have fun while doing it. Criticize us all you want." -Taylor from VH1's Save the Music
"If I limited myself I would just prove myself wrong."-Isaac "It is important for people to know how much our music means to us." - Taylor "For some reason, people have a love-hate factor with Hanson. A lot of teen bands are criticized for being fake, but they're not hated. I think we are hated because it scares people that we could be real."-Taylor "I think music is always evolving, things are always changing. People are always changing what they like... But we've always been doing what we love to do. We weren't worrying about what other bands were doing. We do what we do and they do what they do. That's the way of the world." -Isaac "I like food, anything fried in bacon grease." -Zac on his favorite food
Girls Life Magazine: What is your most treasured memory?
"Yeah, we have a lot of friends who don't dig the music. They're just like, 'Guys, I'm sorry, but I think your music is crappy. But, uh, you guys are cool'." -Zac
"We're just three dorks from Oklahoma." -Isaac
Remember when it was back like this?
"I'd try and play with my sisters. I'd take Zac's power rangers and their Barbies and marry them. Then they'd tell me to stop playing with her 'cuz I'm upsetting her." -Taylor "Uhhh....Taylor?...Who is he??...Man, I dunno, maybe it's that weird lookin thing over there...AAHHHHH....It's...It's... alive!!!" -Zac & Isaac "I got into a fist fight once because a guy picked on Tay. He was a friend and he threw Taylor against a wall and made his nose bleed. I went really mad. He wasn't a friend after that..."-Isaac Celebrity Opinions and quotes about Hanson!!
Haha is this real? I hope so. "Hanson? I think they're the devil's tools. Some twisted person is pulling their strings. Personally, I'm scared of them." -marilyn manson
Isaac: I don't really have one. I hate these questions. I guess it would have to be when I got my car.
Taylor: It's a minivan.
Isaac: It's not a minivan! It's NOT a minivan!
"I am a guy, but I'm not going to pull my pants down to prove it."-Taylor "One time, I was walking in this restuarant and this guy held the door open for me. And I looked over there and said, 'Oh my God, he thinks I'm a girl'." -Taylor
"For a while, there was the alternative thing, and it was huge. Now it's coming back to music being fun. Not corny, but enjoyable. Not down-and-out 'I hate my life'." - Taylor
"Something I could knock into anything and it wouldn't matter." -Taylor describing a beat-up truck he learned to drive with.
"And next week is Spanking New Music week...'
'I just love a good spanking!'
'No, Zac. That's scary...'"
"I think pick-up lines are pretty stupid. I think you just have to....just have to walk up to somebody and say hi how're you doin'. Be yourself because pickup lines never really work! mean if you walk up to a girl and you go 'hey baby your last name must be Gilette 'cuz yer the best a man can get' I don't think that's okay. She'll just laugh at you and then she'll like, slap you in the face and go 'bye bye loser'..." -Isaac
"If somebody's obsessed with you, it would be kinda hard to go out with her. You'd take her hand and she'd scream! But if she was nice enough, then yeah, I'd date a fan" -Taylor
"I get embarrased really easily. We were at a McDonald's once, and we were waiting to order our food. All of a sudden, there was whispering going up and down the line. People were saying "Hanson...Taylor..." and things like that. No one said anything to me. They just whispered. And I
was standing there. In the end I just got my food and ran out" -Taylor
"Girl's Definately do not have cooties." -Isaac
"Well,we writing songs about our wives and our girlfriends leaving us before we could even care." -Isaac
"Look at that cute girl, oh wait thats me." Zac...on the first time he saw Hanson on TV...
"I often go off into my own little world. At least that's
what Isaac and Zac say. There is some truth in it, though. I like to think very carefully about everything. For this I need peace and qiet so that I can really 'catch up' with myself again. But even when I can't be alone it isn't difficult for me to swtich off- that's when my brothers always say I'm in my little 'Taylor World' again." -Taylor
"I am Puff Brocalii, everybody loves me, I'm Puff Brocalli!" -Isaac (from Live From Albertane)
"We are Ike, Tay, and Zac, not Posh, Spicey, Butter, and Rare or whatever
their names are"-Taylor
"Yeah, I'm weird. I put the milk in before the cereal."-Zac
"We were coming out of a radio station, and there were about 2,000 people outside this station,
and this 40-year-old woman jumps and grabs at my hair! I’m going ‘Have some control,
woman!"-Taylor
"It was sending us messages like, 'Screw you!'. We were like, 'Oh my God! It's alive!" -Taylor talking about haveing trouble with a computer
"You're jealous because this girl was flirting with me more after a concert because I'm so fine!"-Zac
"People have told me to have sex when i feel the desire to, but right now i have no desire to pull my pants down in front of a girl." -Zac Hanson
"Make life like toilet paper...long and usefull!"- Zac
"Love isnt only for grownups there are different kinds of love, of course. I
love my brothers and sisters and my parents most of all, I especially love the fans." -Zac
"You never know what you miss until it passes you by."-Taylor
"Beep! Do not pass go! Do not collect 200 dollars!" -Taylor
"Don't spew on the audience! Bad move." -Taylor
"Thou shalt have a frog in thy bathroom." -Isaac
"Getting your lisence gives you the right to pick your nose in the
car." -Taylor
"Math used to be my favorate school subject. I'm still pretty good at algebra and math... but your love for math goes out the window." -Isaac
"Did you know MMMBop backwards, is pobmmm?" -Isaac
"Lets play with guns, and knifes, and motorcycles!" -Zac
"There's a weird fact that if you drop a penny off the Empire State Building in New York you'd kill someone. I feel really bad because I dropped a nickel off there once!" -Taylor
"Actually when I get my permit, I worry for the people on the sidewalk." -Taylor
"We're gonna go get wasted after the show." - Zac
"You're still the same person you were five minutes ago when noboby cared." -Taylor on sudden fame, on House Of Style
"The dumbest question we were ever asked was 'How did you guys meet?'." -Taylor
"I hate it when people say Hanson sucks. Hanson does NOT suck. They proved that at the Grammy's they can rock. Face it people, bow down to Hanson, they rock and will be around a lot longer than most." -Steven Jenkins (lead singer of Third Eye Blind)
"I think Hanson is going to be around for a long time. I think that they're three great talented young men and I think that what people need to stop doing to music is looking at the negative in everything. People are trying their best. It's great, and I think they're going to be around for a long time. You know, I like Hanson. When I hear them sing live, they have good voices, they play live instruments. I think they are going to grow as musicians. They are great entertainers and they have a lot of personality... some clean-cut kids trying to have a good time. They sound like the Jackson 5 to me a little bit. They got a lot of soul to them." -Puff Daddy
"I want to adopt the little Hanson brother" -Jim Carrey
"The Hanson brothers were probably the most confused of all about our recording system. They had never recorded on the computer. They're a live band, and at first they were a little scared. They said, 'Is this gonna be Hanson or Milli Vanilli?" -The Dust Brothers
Have you ever met Hanson?
"No, but someone we know was talking to them and the older one, Isaac, said that he listens to us all the time and loves us, which really
surprised us!" -Steve (from Jars of Clay)
"Hanson makes some great music so we're happy to share the bill with them." -Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith
"I went to a Hanson concert the other night, and you know what? They can
play!" -Chris Rock