Near Mic Quotes by Patrick Carney

I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

— Patrick Carney

In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's…

— Patrick Carney

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

— Patrick Carney

[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.

— Patrick Carney

Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

— Patrick Carney

I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

— Patrick Carney

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've…

— Patrick Carney

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

— Patrick Carney

Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type…

— Patrick Carney

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

— Patrick Carney

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want…

— Patrick Carney

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

— Patrick Carney