Jack Antonoff Quotes
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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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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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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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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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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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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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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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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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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 always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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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 feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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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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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.
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For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.