Geoff Rickly Quotes

• Even though it's an unpopular paradigm, wear your heart on your sleeve, and mean what you say. Believe in what you say, and there will be a time for that. Maybe that time hasn't come yet, but there will be a time for that.

  Geoff Rickly

  Creer, Corazón, Significar

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• What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

  Geoff Rickly

  Self, Layers, Punk

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

  Geoff Rickly

  Class, Radio, Privilege

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

  Geoff Rickly

  People, Musician, Proud

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. All that sort of stuff reminds you to stay true to the essence of what art is about.

  Geoff Rickly

  Art, Sleep, Essence

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

  Geoff Rickly

  Art, Class, Virtue

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

  Geoff Rickly

  Artist, Self, White Privilege

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.

  Geoff Rickly

  Trying, Band, Nostalgia

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.

  Geoff Rickly

  People, Listening, Attention

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

  Geoff Rickly

  Years, Absurd, Questionable

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

  Geoff Rickly

  Rocks, Guitar, Years

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.

  Geoff Rickly

  Mirrors, Culture, Goes On

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• What we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that, and then the next generation is against that, and then that thing becomes a problem. There's these layers of anti-, and so many of them are just so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

  Geoff Rickly

  Self, Next, Generations

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.

  Geoff Rickly

  Crazy, Vegas, July

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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