Patrick Carney Quotes

• Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

  Patrick Carney

  Rocks, People, Dying

  "The Rise of the Black Keys". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

  Patrick Carney

  Kids, Eye, Feet

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• The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

  Patrick Carney

  Song, Dollars, Spotify

  "The Black Keys' Patrick Carney Slams U2's Songs of Innocence Free Release" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. October 16, 2014.

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• In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's like, you borrow $100,000 from a record label, so you don't make any money until you make back that money for them. In theory, they have you held hostage, so you've got to do every little stupid thing that they want you to do.

  Patrick Carney

  Stupid, Labels, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  Patrick Carney

  Mistake, Rocks, Band

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• [Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.

  Patrick Carney

  Rich, Should, Justin

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• And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

  Patrick Carney

  Opportunity, People, Records

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• I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

  Patrick Carney

  Artist, People, Pay

  "Black Keys Drummer Patrick Carney Calls Napster Founder Sean Parker an 'A--hole' for Stealing Royalties" by Portia Medina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

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  School, Track, Fascination

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• When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

  Patrick Carney

  Song, Two, Looks

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• Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now.

  Patrick Carney

  Tunes, New Life, Lifetime

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2015

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• Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.

  Patrick Carney

  Depressing, Cities, People

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

  Patrick Carney

  Mirrors, People, One Day

  "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

  Patrick Carney

  Awkward, Looks, Ugly

  "The Rise of the Black Keys" by Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  Patrick Carney

  Real, Pavement, Captains

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• I know that women in the music industry get treated a lot differently than men. I've seen it firsthand with somebody in particular, where it's almost that men like to treat women in the music industry like they can't make their own decisions.

  Patrick Carney

  Men, Decision, Treats

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

  Patrick Carney

  Friday, Tools, Jersey

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• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  Patrick Carney

  Fun, Play, People

  "The Black Keys". Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

  Patrick Carney

  Ideas, Netflix, Enough

  "The Black Keys' Half-Dozen Biggest Beefs" by Chris Payne, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 27, 2014.

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• There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

  Patrick Carney

  Sections

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• I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.

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  Country, Nice, People

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• I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

  Patrick Carney

  Mother, Cake, Parent

  "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed". Interview With Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.

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  Writing, Reality, Tv Shows

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• I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

  Patrick Carney

  Writing, Ears, Melody

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• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  Patrick Carney

  Construction Workers, Guitar, Nashville

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