Patrick Stump Quotes
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
-
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
-
My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
-
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
-
I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
-
Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
-
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
-
I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
-
When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
-
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
-
Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
-
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
-
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
-
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
-
The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
-
My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
-
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
-
Upon him I will visit famine and a fire.Till all around him desolation ringsAnd all the demons in the outer darkLook on amazed and recognizeThat vengeance is the business of a man.
-
With Gear, you're able to make calls and receive calls without ever taking your phone out of your pocket.
-
All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
-
Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
-
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
