Hoppus On Music Quotes & Sayings

For some reason, I always thought when the world ended it'd be louder. — Renee Carter

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

Thus it is that love is not without hope, hope is not without love, and neither hope nor love are without faith. — Augustine Of Hippo

I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists. — Mark Hoppus

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging
but that weren't sweet. — Miles Davis

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before. — Prince Philip

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed. — Mark Hoppus

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

It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like. — Mark Hoppus

I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people. — Mark Hoppus

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal. — Mark Hoppus

And because he was nice in the beginning did not mean he was a good man. — Deb Caletti

The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener. — Mark Hoppus

I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon ... you are only half a woman
your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it. — Anne Bronte

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine. — Mark Hoppus

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience. — Mark Hoppus

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever — Virginia Woolf

The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band ... ' — Mark Hoppus

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself. — Mark Hoppus

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human — Mark Hoppus

But we must not overlook the vital connection between all physical movement and the acquisition of speech, for this has now been established independently by psychologists. In the case of children whose speech has been retarded or has become disordered, they have found that the child's ability to handle words can be recovered by re-training his motor behavior through inducing him to resume the earlier posture of crawling, the stage that usually accompanies, or slightly precedes, the first efforts at speech. — Lewis Mumford

I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to. — Mark Hoppus