Top 80 Mark Hoppus Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “I just want everyone out there to know that I’m super-awesome and a great guy and really cool to talk to and that I appreciate all the support.”

— Mark Hoppus

53. “I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There’s a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.”

— Mark Hoppus

54. “It really expresses a man in pain.”

— Mark Hoppus

55. “Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn’t touch me. It was infuriating to them.”

— Mark Hoppus

56. “I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.”

— Mark Hoppus

57. “I like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place.”

— Mark Hoppus

58. “The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.”

— Mark Hoppus

59. “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

60. “I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There’s no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that’s acceptable.”

— Mark Hoppus

61. “When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.”

— Mark Hoppus

62. “Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.”

— Mark Hoppus

63. “Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.”

— Mark Hoppus

64. “I don’t really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.”

— Mark Hoppus

65. “We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.”

— Mark Hoppus

66. “Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.”

— Mark Hoppus

67. “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

68. “There’s no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it’s destroyed.”

— Mark Hoppus

69. “I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.”

— Mark Hoppus

70. “I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.”

— Mark Hoppus

71. “During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.”

— Mark Hoppus

72. “I’m always asking friends what new music they’re into, and I love showing people new talented artists.”

— Mark Hoppus

73. “I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain – people are always striving for something different, and something better.”

— Mark Hoppus

74. “I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music – I like seventeen-year-old me.”

— Mark Hoppus

75. “I don’t have a problem being on ‘MTV,’ and I don’t have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.”

— Mark Hoppus

76. “No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.”

— Mark Hoppus

77. “Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.”

— Mark Hoppus

78. “Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.”

— Mark Hoppus

79. “Thats not a place where I’m considered good-looking.”

— Mark Hoppus

80. “Yeah, I actually do know where I am.”

— Mark Hoppus

81. “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

82. “It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.”

— Mark Hoppus

83. “Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.”

— Mark Hoppus

84. “There’s also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it’s a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don’t make it.”

— Mark Hoppus

85. “Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that’s coming back.”

— Mark Hoppus

86. “I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.”

— Mark Hoppus

87. “As a producer, I’m an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It’s a step back from the intimacy of creation.”

— Mark Hoppus

88. “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.”

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89. “We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we’re supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.”

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