"We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years"
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The power here is in the double "same". It does not just describe a set list; it suggests a closed loop where craft becomes ritual and ritual becomes a cage. "For years" lands like a timestamp and a sentence: time has passed, and the aesthetic has not. Berkowitz does not melodramatize it; the flatness is the point. Musicians rarely announce stasis so bluntly unless they are either defending it ("we know what we do") or quietly grieving it ("we used to be restless").
Context matters because rock culture sells authenticity as consistency. Fans often treat change as betrayal and repetition as proof you are "real". Berkowitz's line needles that bargain. It hints at a tension between artistic growth and the economics of a brand - where the safest move is to reenact your own past at volume. Read generously, it is also a confession of discipline: an insistence on tightness, on honoring a sound, on not chasing trends. Read darker, it is the sound of someone hearing their own legacy turn into a cover band of itself.
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Berkowitz, Daisy. (2026, January 17). We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-playing-the-same-songs-the-same-way-that-we-44102/
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Berkowitz, Daisy. "We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-playing-the-same-songs-the-same-way-that-we-44102/.
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"We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-playing-the-same-songs-the-same-way-that-we-44102/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.


