Geoff Rickly Quotes

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.

Geoff Rickly

• People
• Attention
• Listening

I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.

Geoff Rickly

• Married
• Beens
• Warped

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

Geoff Rickly

• Knows
• Absurd
• Questionable

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

Geoff Rickly

• Radio
• Privilege
• Enjoyed

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

Geoff Rickly

• Interesting
• Rock
• Guitar

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.

Geoff Rickly

• Culture
• Mirrors
• Counterculture

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.

Geoff Rickly

• People
• Proud
• Musician

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

Geoff Rickly

• Virtue
• Class
• Universal

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.

Geoff Rickly

• Trying
• Please
• Nostalgia

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.

Geoff Rickly

• People
• Art
• Sleep