Patrick Carney Quotes

#1. If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

Olivia Wilde

#2. Let me first assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

William Manchester

#3. 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

#4. If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

Patrick Carney

#5. Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

Patrick Carney

#6. The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy ... Or mustard.

Patrick Carney

#7. I love meeting up with friends and just doing 'normal' stuff like going to the cinema.

Kimberley Nixon

#8. The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

Patrick Carney

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

Patrick Carney

#10. You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.

Mark Driscoll

#11. You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

Jesse Jackson

#12. We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

Patrick Carney

#14. If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Seamus Heaney

#15. 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 gone grey.

Patrick Carney

#16. The next day,' I'd conclude, 'when we'd returned safely to base camp, ice flowers had formed on the newly frozen sea, sculptured blooms like those waxen wreaths in the cemeteries of home.

Beryl Bainbridge

#17. [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

#18. I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.

Patrick Carney

#19. He who hid well, lived well.

Rene Descartes

#20. Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

Patrick Carney

#21. A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

Patrick Carney

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

Patrick Carney

#23. I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

Patrick Carney

#24. When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

Patrick Carney

#25. 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

#26. There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

Ronald Reagan

#27. The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

Louise Penny

#28. Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now,

Patrick Carney

#29. Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.

Patrick Carney

#30. 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

#31. I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

Patrick Carney

#32. I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

Patrick Carney

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

Patrick Carney

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

Patrick Carney

#35. 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 with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

Patrick Carney

#36. As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

Patrick Carney

#37. The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

Patrick Carney

#38. The fact we get played on the radio now blows our minds.

Patrick Carney

#39. I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

Patrick Carney