Patrick Carney
Patrick Carney
Patrick James Carneyis an American musician best known as the drummer for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. He also has a side-project rock band called Drummer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth15 April 1980
CityAkron, OH
CountryUnited States of America
mirrors people one-day
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.
nashville play construction-workers
If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
friday jersey tools
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.
blue green six
I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.
mistake rocks tights
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.
breakup fun thinking
I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
real pavement captains
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
song two looks
When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
fun play people
The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
ideas netflix enough
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.
writing reality tv-shows
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
artist people pay
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.
tunes new-life lifetime
Tune into my new lifetime movie. ’Dislocated shoulder’ airing right now,
writing ears melody
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.