Mark Hoppus Quotes

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can listen to a song, and it means something different.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.

As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.