Geoff Rickly Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Geoff Rickly
We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist. — Geoff Rickly
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 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
I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life. — Geoff Rickly
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class. — Geoff Rickly