Patrick Stump Quotes

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy

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• I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Blues

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Story

• I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Record
  • Comfortable

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Music
  • Live
  • Enough

• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Music
  • Nice

• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Race

• I've become a workaholic. When the shows slow down and there's no press and I can get my time to myself in the studio with my music, I get into this zone, man. I enter this incredible space where I'm just making music. And I feel like I can work with anybody - with Elton John, with Hanson - and I can make something incredible.

  

  Wale
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Respect
  • Style

• I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kind

• I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Music has no limits of a life-span.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Music

• The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Done
  • Age

• Language, he understood, was chiefly important for the beauty of its sounds, by its possession of words resonant, glorious to the ear, by its capacity, when- exquisitely arranged, of suggesting wonderful and indefinable impressions, perhaps more ravishing and farther removed from the domain of strict thought than the impressions excited by music itself.

  

  Arthur Machen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Words

• It's really important to be free and be open and honest about the things you want to do. Just 'cause you want to make a solo record or another record with another band, it doesn't have to be an insult or a slight to the band you've been with for a long time.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Write
  • Place

• If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Reality

• You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Country
  • Chicago

• I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot of personal information about my past or who I am. I would rather the personal side of it just be in the concepts and the genuine feelings that I filter through my work. I know that it's inevitable that people can find whatever they want about me. Once I've had a chance to create a language and a world with my art, then I'm more comfortable sharing that information.

  

  Alexandra Ashley Hughes Austra
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Band
  • Compromise