Ryan Ross Quotes

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Ryan Ross

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 30, 1986

Most songs on the radio are so straightforward and it just doesn't open up people's minds.

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Don't get me wrong, The Beatles are one of our all-time favourite bands, but there's a lot more we were influenced by.

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I'm usually the bad guy. That's how it always seems to be.

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Sometimes I'm not as open to loving.

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For a while there I wasn't sure that anybody cared about being the best at anything, and it's nice to have a group of guys that feel like we're doing it for the cause. Maybe we're just really young and naive for thinking music can matter, but it does to us.

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When I was about six, I was kind of a cowboy. I'd dress up in boots, straps, hat and bandanna, and my dad would take us to the rodeo.

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I've been studying people - a homeless guy in Scotland, a blind accordion player in London - and they've inspired the lyrics I've been writing.

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Fever' was good for how young we were, but for me it's kind of like a yearbook picture. You look at it like, 'Oh, man, that's the suit I was wearing?'

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That's the funny thing - if there was a year and half or two years of us being a band like every other band and then getting signed, we would probably have made 'Pretty. Odd.' as our first album instead.

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I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

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I always said as long as I had enough money to feed myself and have a place to eat then I'd be doing music.

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I've seen those kids at the shows, I can hear them, and I can certainly tell the difference between one of our fans and a Fall Out Boy fan who's just there because they heard we were hot.

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Some of our favorite bands are, like, Third Eye Blind and Counting Crows, and stuff like Danny Elfman and Jon Brion movie scores.

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It's like Christians who want to be like Jesus. We're just trying to follow in someone's footsteps. Might as well be The Beatles.

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Brendon has always been a fan of pop music, but that's such a broad term, because I guess I would say I would be too, but in a different way.

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When we were writing for Panic whether we knew it or not, having that name over the songs we were trying to do made me second guess things and change things. I started to go against my instincts.

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We got really excited by Motown and early '60s soul music that was fun sounding.

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We've got a younger fan base - and their parents. One day when we were at Abbey Road, an entire family was outside waiting for us - like, a nine-year-old, a 16-year-old, and their mother. They can agree on liking us for whatever reason. It's kind of strange.

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Brendon just likes to make a scene sometimes.

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I can't expect everybody to appreciate what we do. Our stage shows especially have been kind of polarizing. Either you went with it or you didn't, and you thought we were being pretentious. Personally, I think it's kind of boring when I watch a band that doesn't do anything to make it their own.

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