Fall Out Boy Quotes
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Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.
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Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself.
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I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it.
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When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.
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I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.
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In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?': Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.
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There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but for us I feel like it would be dishonest and kinda disrespectful to that artwork to do that. To be like: "Okay, we're going to go back and only play these songs, even though we have an hour to an hour and a half set and we gotta play more songs, but we'll skimp you on your extra half hour." That's just silly to me.
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When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.
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I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.
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I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.
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What are you looking at?” she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.
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Being the drummer of Fall Out Boy, and any other project I've ever done, is most importantly about playing for the music. Staying out of the way when it's needed and playing more when it makes sense.
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I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.
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There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that’s how she is stuck in my mind forever. We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.
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If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.
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Sometimes its good to come back when you least expect to.
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It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.
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I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.
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I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.
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It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.
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I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me.
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I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed, aside from like, white-power music or something.
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Here's the thing about hair; I think most people think that I have Lego hair, like I can just take it on and off in one piece, and that's not quite the case - although pretty close.
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Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.