Patrick Stump Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.”
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“I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave.”
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“For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.”
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“I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.”
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“Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.”
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“I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.”
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“I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.”
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“I've learned a lot about things because of the Internet. I'm happy with it, but it's a long road for me. I'm still definitely a little anti.”
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“I very often think about doing things that I would want other artists to do. Like, if I'm a fan of whoever, I want to be treated a certain way. So I realized it came off almost elitist to ignore the whole world of Twitter and Facebook.”
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“I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.”
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“Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen.”
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“I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.”
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“I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.”
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“You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.”
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“I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.”
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“I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.”
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“I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.”
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“I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.”
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“The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.”
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“There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.”
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“'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.”
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“I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.”
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“Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.”
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“When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.”
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“Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger...”
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“One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.”
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“Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.”
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“Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.”
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