Geoff Rickly Quotes
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People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.
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I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.
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The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.
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There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.
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Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.
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Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.
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I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. All that sort of stuff reminds you to stay true to the essence of what art is about.
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I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.
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People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.
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As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.