Brendon Urie Quotes
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When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about.
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I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.
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I don't care who gets in my way... I'm just gonna come right though and riot.
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I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.
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My music library is all over the place. I've got A$AP Rocky; I've got Billy Joel. I've got, like, Celine Dion albums that I just worship. There's all kinds of different stuff.
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There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it, so now to revisit it at an older age, I have a deeper appreciation for it.
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Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'
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I don't have any pets, so I get to walk around the house naked. So I'm more free.
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I have a room dedicated to music and recording. I go there first thing in the morning and just before I go to bed. And it has a window to my street, so I can watch all the crazies walking by.
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I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.
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When we first moved to California from Las Vegas, we got into surfing. We figured we should do something to get in shape, but we hate working out. Surfing is definitely a work out.
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I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.
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If I had come out with an album called 'Brendon Urie Does...' everyone would have been like, 'Who?' Even five albums in, I'm still faceless wherever I go, which is great.
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I want to write something that celebrates life, that's fun to listen to.
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On the first album, we were trying to do a pop-punk album with a classical influence. We'd say 'pop-punk,' and people would say, 'No, you're like burlesque-cabaret-punk,' or, 'It's baroque-pop,' and we were like, 'That sounds way cooler.'
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I'm trying to be number one. I'm doing the best I can and working the hardest I've ever worked to ensure I've got that number one spot.
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I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I'm in a crammed room with a bunch of people - oh my God.
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We're all in this together. We're all sinners.
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I think some songs are better on vinyl.
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When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.
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I've just gotten better at partying. I haven't stopped or slowed down by any means. If anything, it's increased. But if anything, it's just more fun now.
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I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.
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I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.
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I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.