Mark Hoppus Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Falling In Love, Teenage

• 'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Silly, Guitar

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's new album 'California'". Coup De Main interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

• I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Cutting, Years

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

• We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Thinking, California

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's New Album, 'california'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

• I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.

  Mark Hoppus

  Suicide, Song, Silly

  Source: www.spin.com

• Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Names, People

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Cosmo Girl Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

• Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.

  Mark Hoppus

  Tattoo, Breakup, Song

  Source: www.spin.com

• Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Intelligent, Creative

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

• There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.spin.com

• When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, People, Albums

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

• I don't think any of us felt like, "Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record." If we found something funny, we would record it, and if we wanted to, we'd put it on the record. It's not really something we spent too much time agonizing over.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Thinking, Jokes

  Source: www.spin.com

• Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Too Short, Life's Too Short

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

• Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Writing, Different Experiences

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Cosmogirl Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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