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Tom DeLonge, born on December 13, 1975, is a renowned musician from the United States. He is best known for his role as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the punk rock band blink-182, which gained significant popularity in the 1990s and early 2000s. Beyond his musical career, DeLonge has ventured into the film and technology sectors, holding multiple patents.

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Famous Tom DeLonge Quotes

“We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.”

Ifs Writing Matter Artist Praying Bunch Make Sense Praying To God Blink 182

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“I think I might get laid more...by my dad.”

Thinking Might Dad My Dad Getting Laid

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“I've been abducted and probed in the anus. On purpose.”

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“Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?”

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“The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.”

People Littles Play Shows Stuff Bits Hours Church Emotion Audience Cry Couple Little Bit Angel Intense Interaction Secular Theatrical

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“They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.”

Thinking Trying Stills Dies Figures Died Gravity Blink

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“Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.”

Humans Looks Matter Certain Energy Brain Shapes Scientist Patterns Experiments Geometric Geometric Shapes

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“Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.”

Way Feels Kind Ideas Jobs Struggle Stuck

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“I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.”

Should Art Play Kids Expression Punk Nostalgic

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“So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Today Artist Guy House Speak Right Now Eating Sick Green Clean Not Sure

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“My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.”

Wells Today Form Dad Drug My Dad Come Up Grades Leukemia

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“When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.”

Writing Play Bigs Stuff Sound Ability Rocks Guitar Studios Heavy Posts Loud Aggressive Punk

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“Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur that's all me.”

Ideas Philosophy Space Pure Reflection Angel Who I Am Theme Grandeur Spiritualism

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“You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.”

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“When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.”

Thinking Art Different Bigs Wanted Film Produce Angel Mediums Features Ambitious

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“But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.”

Young Guy Known Generations Idols Defining Blink

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“You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.”

Ifs Knows Should I Can Happens Passion Love You Hard Work Promise Harder I've Learned Make It Happen Work Harder Follow Your Passion Something You Love

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“Im not gay, but the man in my bed last night was.”

Men Lasts Night He Man Gay Bed Last Night Blink 182

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“I was kicked out of middle school a few times. This guy who was kind of a d*** and a bully got hit by a car. I jumped up and went, YEAH Apparently that wasnt cool with some people cause I got kicked out.”

People Kind School Guy Causes Middle Car Yeah Bully This Guy Middle School

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“You can do anything you want. And you can be anything you want. And you can feel anything you want. But there's only one thing you need to do, and that is: have the slightest vision to see it. Because if you can't see it happening, then it will never happen”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Happens Can Do Vision One Thing Happenings

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“Angels and Airwaves shows are like an ascension to Heaven.”

Shows Heaven Angel Ascension

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“I have to make music. If I don't do it, I go crazy.”

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“I know how big Blink are and I know the legacy with it and everything, but Angels & Airwaves, to my heart and to the people who like it, this is the release of my life.”

People Knows Heart Bigs Know How My Heart Angel Release Legacy Blink

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“I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk.”

Want Might Jerk Dork Blink 182

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“It's all success if it's what you need.”

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“Life is a search for yourself.”

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“Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.”

War Middle Findings Zone Finding Love Playing Music Blink War Zones

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“The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!”

People Firsts Wells Night Song Sound Records Angel All Night Blink Up All Night

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“There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.”

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“Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.”

I Can Two Hours Sitting Dinner Spending Grandmother My Grandmother Fart Thanksgiving Dinner

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“I applaud anyone who thinks I'm good-looking and invite them into my world.”

Thinking World Invites Looking Good Blink 182

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“I used to drink a lot of beer, but I was just getting fat as can be. Now that we've had a little success, I can afford to drink wine.”

Littles I Can Used Drink Wine Fats Beer

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“I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs.”

Writing Guy Song Known Sick Sexy Sexy Guy

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“I have to be able to stick to very dedicated times to work on things, do exactly as I say I'm going to do, show up when I say I'm going to show up and focus that's the only way I've been able to pull off everything last year but I'm hoping I'll never have to do that again, it's a hell of a lot of work that's for sure.”

Way Years Shows Able Lasts Hell Focus Sticks Dedicated Last Year

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“I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.”

Band Looking Forward Places I've Been

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“I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.”

Thinking Needs Believe Humans Grows Importance Evolve Human Life

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“I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways.”

Thinking Way Humans Reason Artist Certain Ability Subjects Connections Communicate Gravity Human Connection Words Love Ability To Communicate

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“I think that people feel they know what love means, it's probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another.”

People Thinking Knows World Feels Mean Persons Different Used Definitions Love Means

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“I think that you can say you love somebody like in a relationship, but I also think that to feel love for somebody else or for another human is more about a living being to a living being, a totally different thing. I don't know if people will ever totally understand what that word means until we die.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Humans Mean Different Dies Different Things

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“I think dreams hold a lot of meaning. I believe that if the universe is truthfully infinite then there are infinite possibilities for dreams to be happening somewhere out there.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Dream Universe I Believe Possibility Happenings Infinite Infinite Possibilities Somewhere Out There

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“There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.”

Littles Dream Possibility Window Parallels Timelines

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“Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you'll be able to handle certain elements from those dreams in a better way.”

Way Dream Able Certain Teach Elements Wake Up Handle Better Ways Pupils

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“I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.”

Thinking World Different Dream Individual Speak Known Doors Opening Fascinating Different Things New World

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“The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.”

Band Resources Stuck Labels Contracts Holding On No Money

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“I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.”

Giving Believe Art Might Artist I Believe Ability Pieces Sells Communicate Ability To Communicate

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“If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.”

Ifs Dream Might Artist Grows Ability Messages Rate

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“When you work with a major label they create their own message for you and a lot of the time that works great, or at least it did back in the 90's but now it doesn't work, so I think as an artist if you learn your own business, like anybody would when they want to start a little restaurant - they'd figure it out and then build it and they work hard - then it could be your own little business that you grew to as big as you want it to be but you had much more control with how to communicate it and how it's cared for.”

Ifs Thinking Want Littles Hard Bigs Artist Figures Hard Work Grew Majors Messages Communicate Labels Restaurants Own Business

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“When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.”

Believe Imagination Powerful

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“I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.”

People Giving Should Dream Bigs Chance Give Me Hopefully Another Chance

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“There are lots of things that I'm always pulling inspiration from.”

Inspiration Pulling

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About the Author

Born: December 13, 1975
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 95

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