John Flansburgh Quotes

• Los mundos se van al infierno de todos modos, pásalo bien.

  John Flansburgh

  World, Good Times, Hell

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• ¡Mira, arriba en el cielo! ¡Es el cielo!

  John Flansburgh

  Sky, Looks, Look Up

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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.

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  Tired, Way, Interviews

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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.

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  Guerra, Creer, Significar

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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.

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  Shallow Person, Awkward, Feelings

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

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  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.

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  Creatividad, Pensamiento, Personas

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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.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Worry

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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.

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  Pensar, Gente, Intentar

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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.

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  Thinking, Giving, Hours

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

  John Flansburgh

  Angel, People

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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.

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  Guy, Lucky, Aging

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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

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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.

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  Simple, Done, Footprint

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

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  Reading, People

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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.

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  Mentira, Mala, Gente

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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

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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.

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  Goal, Interesting, Fit

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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.

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  Political, Musician

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• Any time having international interviews is a language barrier, you don't know how much you need to simplify what you're saying for it not to be damaged in translation. But culturally, there are some interesting phenomena. I get the feeling that the way rock music gets described in Germany, it is all like Rolling Stone circa 1975, taken to the 10th power. If you're a rock musician, you're part of the counterculture. Your music is like a critique of everything that is wrong with America.

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  Tomado, Interesante, Sentimientos

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• It's always interesting to me when one platform of media crosses into another. We've been on the Terry Gross show Fresh Air a couple of times, and I suddenly felt like we could actually represent ourselves as exactly who we are, in this sort of ultra-vivid way. But the weird thing to me is that the questions she asks are in some ways no different than the questions the guy from the high-school paper asks. She might even ask us where we got our name. But something about it, it's like the pH balance of the trajectory of the questions. Maybe it's just her voice.

  John Flansburgh

  Couple, Interesting, Guy

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• Every declarative statement that comes out of an interview with somebody is actually in response to a question. It's like this very real interpersonal dance where one of the people involved is invisible.

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  Real, People, Invisible

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• I think the biggest wrestling match-up I have is how to respond to the word "quirky." Or the alternate, "nerdy." Both are essentially benign to the reader, but if you're a writer just sort of involved in your creative process, they seem like very small motivations.

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  Motivation, Wrestling, Thinking

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