Patrick Stump Quotes

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself.

Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy

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• When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Rock

• 'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Yourself
  • Snow
  • Be Yourself

• Be yourself. And every person is unique.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Unique
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Unique

• I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Got
  • Punk
  • Spoke

• You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Worry
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Be Yourself

• I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.

  

  Jeffrey Thomas
  • Music
  • Future
  • Inspiration

• For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Friends
  • Culture
  • Punk

• Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Stupid
  • Point
  • Explain

• Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Lazy

• From what I see, nowadays punk and anarchy are still connected with "fast loud music by smelly drunk chaos-people" and, yes, I know I'm over-generalizing here. So when the occasional venue still describes us The ex as "anarchopunk" that's a real bummer, since it attracts an audience that expects a kind of music - which we don't play - and it keeps away another audience that actually might have liked it when they would have come. That's a pity, for both them and us.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • Connected
  • Punk
  • Anarchy

• It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Fashion
  • Safety
  • Punk

• My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Son
  • Agree
  • Punk

• I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Arms
  • Lamb
  • Stray

• But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Different
  • Song
  • Punk

• Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • People
  • Challenges
  • Authority

• I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Pride
  • Direction

• The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Team
  • Understand
  • Expect

• In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • House
  • Attention
  • Focus

• Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Punk
  • Be Yourself
  • Stray