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Patrick Stump, born on April 27, 1984, is an American singer-songwriter. He gained fame as the lead vocalist of the band Fall Out Boy, which achieved significant success in the mid-2000s to early 2010s. Stump is known for his unique voice and creative talent in the music industry.

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“Quiet IS the new loud.”

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“Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.”

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“There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.”

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“The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.”

Made Expression Band Compromise

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“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.”

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“I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.”

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“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.”

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“I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.”

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“You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.”

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“I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.”

Thinking Opportunity Regret

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“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.”

Want Reason Standards Finished Stupidest

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“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.”

People Problem Happens Kids Girl Dying Like You Sick Silly Broke

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“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.”

Trying Song My Own Uplifting Lemons Peppers Lemonade Make Lemonade

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“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.”

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“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.”

Littles Long Stills Internet I've Learned Long Road

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“I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.”

Trying I Can Google

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“I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.”

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“I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.”

People Thinking Knows Treats

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“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. I don't know how to explain it.”

People Knows Wells Home Girl House Know How Mom Chicago

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“I was talking to my grandpa last Thanksgiving. He pulled me aside and was like, "This Thanksgiving is the 150th for the Vaughn family in Chicago." I was like, "Cool, whatever," but I think when you have a culture like that, you should have a real appreciation for it. My family's been there forever and I don't want to leave.”

Thinking Want Should Real Lasts Culture Talking Forever My Family Should Have Appreciation Chicago Grandpa

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“I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.”

Persons Night Morning Night Person

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“Theres 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.”

People Thinking Feels Stupid Amount Jokes Empty Ugly Feel Better Think Of You Hacks

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“'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.”

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“Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.”

Enough Stars Producers Handsome Charismatic

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“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.”

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“I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).”

Believe White Don't Believe Genre Genres Of Music White Power

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“We got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking "Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!"”

Needs Singing Wow

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“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.”

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“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.”

Thinking Ideas Artist Certain Quality Notes Simplicity Complexity

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“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.”

Different Fall Boys Records Four Happened Regret Band Track Albums Planning Solo Different Directions Delayed Don't Regret Fall Out Boy

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“'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.”

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“All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.”

May Hate Culture Identity Dresses Crowds Pops Arguing Complaining Meat Disappointed Pop Culture Gaga Pariahs

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“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.”

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“The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.”

Seems Heard Cliche Music Business

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“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.”

World Soul Rocks Fit Hip Hop My Soul Hips Genre Hops Spokes Punk Punk Rock

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“I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.”

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“I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.”

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“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 things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.”

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“I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.”

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“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.”

Want Art Might Artist Records Products Art Is Being An Artist

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“I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.”

Kind Used Records Stores Nerd Record Stores

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“In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.”

Kind Fall Boys Influence Pops Punk Framework Fall Out Boy

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“When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.”

Writing Stills Play Song

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“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.”

Littles Found Moved Stores Restaurants Hanging Out Groceries Grocery Stores Tokyo

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“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!”

Kind Soul Fall Boys Dying Fall Out Boy

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“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.'”

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“There are some bands for whom that works very well and it's no disrespect to them because I'm sure there's something honest and natural about it, but for us I feel like it would be dishonest and kinda disrespectful to that artwork to do that. To be like: "Okay, we're going to go back and only play these songs, even though we have an hour to an hour and a half set and we gotta play more songs, but we'll skimp you on your extra half hour." That's just silly to me.”

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“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.”

Want Wanted Felt Waiting

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“I think writing is a much more personal thing.”

Thinking Writing Personal Things

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“I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.”

Seems Fascinating Hanging Out

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About the Author

Born: April 27, 1984
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 93

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