Tyler Joseph Quotes
There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.
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I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
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People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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I give away thousands of paintings for free.
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
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I put everything into my hand luggage! Really, I do!
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.
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You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
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How can we not have paid our dues? What were we doing before this band? Fucking sitting at home practicing! Most of us have played enough gigs to say we've paid our dues.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'
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What if at school you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to pain a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it...Of course this sounds ridiculous, but this is how math is taught.
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I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.
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There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.
