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.
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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.
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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.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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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.
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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.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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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.
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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.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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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.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
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Great stories are still just great yarns. News remains the best human drama ever. Technology is not changing the story; it is just changing the way in which we deliver it.
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I have always admired the way women put outfits together.
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If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.
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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
