Jack Antonoff Quotes
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
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I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
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You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.
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I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.