Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something). — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“I probably would have made music but listening to Elvis Costello took my life in a completely different direction.” — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I think one of the things if you look at minimalism or expressionism, there's various movements in modern composition that I think… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I started playing music when I was really young. I didn't start off on guitar because I couldn't fit my hands around… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I collect movies, I still buy records constantly. I collect musical instruments and most of my time I spend making music, it's… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“In reply to 'Do you think your old music is better?': If I did, I would have quit music altogether. You should… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Wentz just gives me lyrics and phrases and sentences and ideas that are just kind of disembodies from any song, ...I'm his… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you.” — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair,… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
What you want if you're asking that question is a specific time in your life to come back to you, and that will never… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
