Top 96 Patrick Stump Quotes
#1. Everyday you gotta wake up & be yourself, even if you suck, especially if you suck, because no one else sucks like you suck - Patrick Stump
Patrick Stump
#2. But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum.
Pete Wentz
#3. 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
#4. Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
Patrick Stump
#5. Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really ...
Patrick Stump
#6. We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.
Patrick Stump
#7. When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
Patrick Stump
#8. Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
Patrick Stump
#9. 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.
Patrick Stump
#10. In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
Patrick Stump
#12. I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.
Patrick Stump
#13. Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
Patrick Stump
#14. When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.
Patrick Stump
#15. I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.
Patrick Stump
#16. There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
Patrick Stump
#17. When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
Patrick Stump
#18. In reply to 'Do you think your old music is better?':
If I did, I would have quit music altogether. You should never put out anything if you don't think it's good.
Patrick Stump
#19. Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better.
Patrick Stump
#20. Everything I've ever wanted to do, we've kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I've been so happy with the band, and we're so lucky and blessed to be able to do it.
Patrick Stump
#21. Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!
Patrick Stump
#22. 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
Patrick Stump
#23. I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.
Patrick Stump
#24. There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
Patrick Stump
#25. In reply to "Why are people at school such d*cks"
Cause they're sad and scared and insecure. Don't let them spread it to you. Try and spread confidence and kindness
Patrick Stump
#26. When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
Patrick Stump
#27. I very often think about doing things that I would want other artists to do. Like, if I'm a fan of whoever, I want to be treated a certain way. So I realized it came off almost elitist to ignore the whole world of Twitter and Facebook.
Patrick Stump
#28. There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
Patrick Stump
#29. I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.
Patrick Stump
#30. I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.
Patrick Stump
#31. I'm a vampire. So I don't age. Except I chew vegetables instead of suck blood.
Patrick Stump
#32. Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Patrick Stump
#33. I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
Patrick Stump
#34. We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
Patrick Stump
#35. 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 spiciness. The hotter the better.
Patrick Stump
#36. In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!
Patrick Stump
#37. 'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
Patrick Stump
#38. Blood brothers in desperation
Oath of silence for the voice of a generation
Fall Out Boy
#39. I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
Patrick Stump
#40. I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.
Patrick Stump
#41. 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
#42. Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
Patrick Stump
#43. I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
Patrick Stump
#44. Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
Patrick Stump
#46. I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.
Patrick Stump
#47. 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 in the grocery stores and restaurants.
Patrick Stump
#48. Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.
Patrick Stump
#50. 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
#51. Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.
Patrick Stump
#52. 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
#53. I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.
Patrick Stump
#54. No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.
Patrick Stump
#55. My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.
Patrick Stump
#56. I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
Patrick Stump
#57. I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.
Patrick Stump
#59. I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.
Patrick Stump
#60. Tattoos are cool. I probably won't ever get any
Patrick Stump
#61. Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
Patrick Stump
#62. Eh, "Haters," never bothered me. Nothing on twitter is serious. I only dislike when folks attack each other.
Patrick Stump
#63. For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.
Patrick Stump
#64. I don't ship anything. Except when I have to send packages through the mail. Now, please stop asking about fanfic.
Patrick Stump
#65. Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger ...
Patrick Stump
#66. 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 going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen.
Patrick Stump
#67. feel like I've never really been beholden to any genre. FOB's kind of changed on every record
Patrick Stump
#68. I've learned a lot about things because of the Internet. I'm happy with it, but it's a long road for me. I'm still definitely a little anti.
Patrick Stump
#69. Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)
Patrick Stump
#70. Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
Patrick Stump
#71. About Soul Punk:
There was this moment where I worried FOB really wasn't coming back so I tried to make a hit record out of an art project.
Patrick Stump
#72. 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
#73. I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very ... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.
Patrick Stump
#74. 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, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery.
Patrick Stump
#75. I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).
Patrick Stump
#76. Replies don't matter unless we have actual conversation though. Like, wouldn't you rather be understood than acknowledged
Patrick Stump
#77. Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong
Patrick Stump
#78. One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
Patrick Stump
#79. 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 that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.
Patrick Stump
#80. I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.
Patrick Stump
#81. The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.
Patrick Stump
#82. Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
Patrick Stump
#83. Someday you'll meet people who are actually on crack and you won't think that's a super funny thing to say.
Patrick Stump
#84. I think writing is a much more personal thing.
Patrick Stump
#85. He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
Patrick Stump
#86. Anything with drums, bass, and guitars is under the pop umbrella. We'll continue to try new sounds as long as we're a band and just by growing up and moving on in your life doesn't mean you hate an earlier part of your life.
Patrick Stump
#87. I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
Patrick Stump
#88. I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.
Patrick Stump
#89. I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.
Patrick Stump
#90. Uh, those problems never fully go away; Nobody's career is invincible. We're beyond blessed to still even have a record deal.
Patrick Stump
#91. I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
Patrick Stump
#92. The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
Patrick Stump
#93. God, is too complicated a concept to tweet about. As the Simpsons said: "Short answer 'No,' Long answer 'Yes,' with a 'But,
Patrick Stump
#94. Pessimism is basically being too inflexible or too impatient with your dreams. Thanks for being so kind!!!
Patrick Stump
#95. American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins
Patrick Stump
#96. Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
Patrick Stump
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