Jack Antonoff Quotes
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I'm not super into sports.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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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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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 always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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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 feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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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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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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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'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.