Brendon Urie Quotes
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Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.
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Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.
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I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!
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I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.
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I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'
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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 still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.
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There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn't matter. Dancing like nobody's watching. It was kind of beautiful.
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Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.
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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 shedding off the old me and I'm reborn as the new me - it's great!
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Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.
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I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.
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I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.
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I've done a collaboration with Action Bronson, which is, like, the coolest thing I've done so far.
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Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd.
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When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.
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There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'
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It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
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The first show we ever played was at my church.
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I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.
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I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.
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I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say.
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To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.