John Flansburgh Quotes

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• Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.

  John Flansburgh

  World, Good Times, Hell

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• In an interview John [Linnell] said, 'At a certain point you just get tired of the way the other person breathes,' and I took that pretty hard because I, personally, am infatuated with the way John breathes.

  John Flansburgh

  Tired, Way, Interviews

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• It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.

  John Flansburgh

  Shallow Person, Awkward, Feelings

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• If you do believe in science, you really have to actually stand up and make a stand for it. You can't just say, the facts aren't in. Science is always looking for better explanations to everything, but that doesn't mean that when we get on a plane we don't know what's supposed to happen next. And if it doesn't go the way that it's planned, that's a big, big problem. The culture wars are very tricky and make me a little sad.

  John Flansburgh

  War, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Look, up in the sky! It's the sky!

  John Flansburgh

  Sky, Looks, Look Up

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• I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.

  John Flansburgh

  Song, Years, Thirty

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• Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'

  John Flansburgh

  Play, Trying, Harmonicas

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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.

  John Flansburgh

  Creativity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• That's what I call 'Guiliani Time', my friends. 'We've got a problem. Let's kill it.'

  John Flansburgh

  Problem, My Friends

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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.

  John Flansburgh

  Sleep, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• There have been times I wanted to cry on interview, but it hasn't been because that's what they're trying to conjure. No. I think you have to graduate to some higher level of TV IQ for people to actually want to see you cry.

  John Flansburgh

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When we're on tour, probably we don't go 24 hours without someone asking us where we came up with the name They Might Be Giants. Which, on one level, seems like a completely legitimate question. If I think of other bands, like The Beatles, it would explain to me that John Lennon had a proclivity for slightly cheap puns. But I'm not sure how much insight that would give me into what's actually good about The Beatles' music.

  John Flansburgh

  Thinking, Giving, Hours

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To a lot of people, angels are a matter of faith.

  John Flansburgh

  Angel, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we started. We were already old when we started - you could have described our first album as "aging Brooklyn guys." We were in our late 20s. We weren't octogenarians, but a lot of bands were already younger than us. Fortunately, we've held on to our manly good looks.

  John Flansburgh

  Guy, Lucky, Aging

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  John Flansburgh

  Simple, Done, Footprint

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We've been a band longer than most of the people reading this have been alive.

  John Flansburgh

  Reading, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• For instance, our music, They Might Be Giants, has this element of humor, which is probably the most uptight part of what we include in our music, because we're in part very self-conscious guys, and we want our music to stand up to the test of time, not just be visceral comedy records. We love humor and comedy, but there's this aspect to it that runs counter to what is included in most music.

  John Flansburgh

  Running, Guy, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  John Flansburgh

  Lying, Mean, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We want to be original. To express our most interesting stuff. But you don't see the word "original" come up very often to describe big bands. Our job isn't to pigeonhole ourselves or describe where we fit in. Our goal isn't to fit in. Our goal is to be free of all that stuff.

  John Flansburgh

  Goal, Interesting, Fit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and be like, "That guy was an idiot." A lot of times, interviews are like being asked a list of questions. Invariably, there will be this part where they think you're a writer for Letterman: "Just off the top of your head, tell me the 10 most influential bands on you." And you're actually asked to come up with a spontaneous list. It's like, "Dude, I'm not living in High Fidelity."

  John Flansburgh

  Fun, Thinking, Wife

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

  John Flansburgh

  Political, Musician

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• 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.

  John Flansburgh

  Running, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think that the most effective social protest that any artist can do would be things that come naturally and feel obvious. I think the Resist movement will continue among people who believe in science, who believe in rights for women, who believe in civil rights.

  John Flansburgh

  Believe, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• All rock music is fake news.

  John Flansburgh

  Fake, Rock Music, Music Is

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• That really sums up the strange bluntness that a really prime German interview can have. They're really interested in your cultural velocity in this way that I don't think people in the United States even necessarily think about alternative-rock bands. So it's not like we're against regular rock. We're not like a battling army shaking our weapons against The Rolling Stones.

  John Flansburgh

  Army, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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