Jack Antonoff Quotes
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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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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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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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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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.
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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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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 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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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 feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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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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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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Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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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 grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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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 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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For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.
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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.