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“All rock music is fake news.”

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John Flansburgh is an American musician known for his role in the band They Might Be Giants. Born on May 6, 1960, he has been active in the music industry since the 1980s. more

“I don't think bands should feel compelled to speak out unless they actually have something to say. I think that's a big mistake, where you're turning into a coyote running off the edge of a cliff. Too often, people just feel like something is happening and they want to be part of this thing, and it's just, there's sort of a "me too!" and that's about it.”

People Thinking Running Speak Mistake Big Mistake

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“It sucks to think about, honestly, but when you really consider the resources that it takes to press vinyl records, or the amount of gas that it takes to tour, it's really quite scary.”

Thinking Scary Honestly Gas Vinyl

Author:John Flansburgh

“I guess the revival of vinyl records is not helping the environmental problem. Although, in some ways, people don't throw records away - I mean, I still have records from when I was 5. So it doesn't seem quite so wasteful. But maybe I'm just lying to myself.”

People Mean Helping Problem Lying Environmental Revival Vinyl

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“I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system.”

Thinking Sleep Worry Aliens Solar System

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“There's so many simple things that can be done to change our carbon footprint, and to reduce our carbon footprint.”

Done Simple Simple Things Footprint

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“The simplest app on your smartphone requires 40 peoples' purest imagination. The challenges with people on environment, we just have to open some of that creativity. But I don't think it's necessarily about heating clouds or enormous chemical changes in the atmosphere.”

People Thinking Imagination Challenges Creativity Environment Atmosphere

Author:John Flansburgh

“The main thing that we're doing is thinking we can control anything, which is the biggest false assumption we can make. I think we can figure out how to tread a lot more lightly on the environment, and we'll be a lot better off.”

Thinking Environment Assumption

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“I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment, they've been about disseminating facts. But I feel like it could be productive to write something that explored directly the idea of fragility.”

People Writing Environment Productive

Author:John Flansburgh

“There is a fact-based belief system available to you if you want to believe in facts. But this is the weirdest time. I mean, after Nixon I thought nothing could be weirder. Then there was Reagan, and after Reagan I thought nothing could be weirder. Then there was Bush and Bush's son, and it all just seemed like nothing could be a badder joke than George W. Bush. And now we're here. It seems to just yo-yo around, but hopefully we'll get to another level.”

Believe Mean Belief Son Jokes Hopefully

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