Brendon Urie Quotes
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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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I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say.
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I find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.
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I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.
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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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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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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 guess a lot of people don't like talking.
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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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The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I spend most of my time writing.
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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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The first show we ever played was at my church.
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It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs, not one of them has that tone. Emo is bullshit! If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, then yes, we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype.
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I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.
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If I could play Jean Valjean, I think that would be the pinnacle.
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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 love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.
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My family is very religious.
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One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.
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Other bands in Vegas hated us because we hadn't played shows and paid our dues. Publications called us out, saying we were just a put-together band, claiming we had ghostwriters. It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard.
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I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because really, it's inevitable. If you like a song, you're going to download it for free. I have no problem with that.
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I have smaller hands, so it's nice being a littler guy, having a guitar that fits my body type.
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I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.
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To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.