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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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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I'm not super into sports.
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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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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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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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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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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For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.
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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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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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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 always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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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.
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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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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'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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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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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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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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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 grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.