Jack Antonoff Quotes
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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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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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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'm not super into sports.
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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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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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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 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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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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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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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 feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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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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For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.
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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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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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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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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.
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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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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.