Top 39 Stephan Jenkins Quotes
#3. When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.
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#5. What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
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#6. I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how we've been from the beginning.
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#8. Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
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#9. You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.
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#10. Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.
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#12. Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.
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#13. I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.
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#14. There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.
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#15. There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.
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#16. But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.
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#18. I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.
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#19. That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
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#20. I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.
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#21. A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
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#23. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
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#25. So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.
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#26. I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.
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#27. Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.
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#29. Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout
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#30. It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.
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#31. I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect.
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#35. When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.
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#36. I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
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#37. My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.
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#38. I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.
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#39. But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
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