Patrick Carney Quotes

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.

The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.

Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now.