Patrick Stump Quotes

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• When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your…
• Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
• One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
• Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
• Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
• Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and…
• I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
• 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.
• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
• I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for…
• Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
• Quiet IS the new loud.
• Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger...
• In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
• I have a girlfriend and she hasn't minded, ...She thinks it's funny I have to sing about that stuff.
• I don't think we care anymore about what we're gonna do. We're just gonna be our own band and we're not gonna pretend to be…
• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those…
• Our fans are pretty loyal. In the beginning, we had to play a lot of shows to, like, one kid at a time. Those kids…

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