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Top 30 Paul Westerberg Quotes (2025 Update)

Paul Westerberg Quote: “The truth is overrated.”

1. “The truth is overrated.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Stick with your heart and you’ll be fine.”

2. “Stick with your heart and you’ll be fine.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Nobody can miss you unless you go away.”

3. “Nobody can miss you unless you go away.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.”

4. “People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “The soul of rock ‘n’ roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock ‘n’ roll.”

5. “The soul of rock ‘n’ roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock ‘n’ roll.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Although, my experience when I’ve been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I’m too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you’re halfway away from it.”

6. “Although, my experience when I’ve been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I’m too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you’re halfway away from it.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “I’d been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.”

7. “I’d been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they’re no artist. If it’s in your blood, it can’t stop flowing.”

8. “Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they’re no artist. If it’s in your blood, it can’t stop flowing.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.”

9. “The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “The ones that love us least, are the ones we’ll die to please.”

10. “The ones that love us least, are the ones we’ll die to please.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “I’m beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.”

11. “I’m beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “I didn’t wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We’re all that forever, and I’ve just grown older. I mean, I haven’t lost anything. I’ve gained a few things.”

12. “I didn’t wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We’re all that forever, and I’ve just grown older. I mean, I haven’t lost anything. I’ve gained a few things.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.”

13. “The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don’t understand the concept.”

14. “Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don’t understand the concept.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person’s voice or vision. Hence, “grandpa-boy.” I’m an old man, but I’m a boy. A really old boy!”

15. “I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person’s voice or vision. Hence, “grandpa-boy.” I’m an old man, but I’m a boy. A really old boy!”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “It’s fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it’s still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I’m still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.”

16. “It’s fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it’s still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I’m still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “A rock’n’roll band needs to be able to get under people’s skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.”

17. “A rock’n’roll band needs to be able to get under people’s skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “The best I can say is that it’s better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It’s better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.”

18. “The best I can say is that it’s better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It’s better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Right now, it hasn’t affected my music other than the fact that I don’t have time to write any of it. That’s no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I’d have to quit.”

19. “Right now, it hasn’t affected my music other than the fact that I don’t have time to write any of it. That’s no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I’d have to quit.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.”

20. “Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Having a diverse sense of taste – or lack of taste – I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.”

21. “Having a diverse sense of taste – or lack of taste – I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.”

22. “Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.”

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23. “I forever felt that I’ve fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock ‘n’ roll and too old to be brand-new. It’s hard.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “I’m not dissatisfied with my place in it rock ‘n’ roll.”

24. “I’m not dissatisfied with my place in it rock ‘n’ roll.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “I’m constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There’s cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn’t changed that much.”

25. “I’m constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There’s cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn’t changed that much.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “If writers had a little more guts, maybe they wouldn’t be writers.”

26. “If writers had a little more guts, maybe they wouldn’t be writers.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “I think it should be evident by now, but I’m as lost as anyone.”

27. “I think it should be evident by now, but I’m as lost as anyone.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Actually, I’ve done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew – everything. Then you see what happens and you’re already committed to dates. I’m just sort of putting out feelers this way.”

28. “Actually, I’ve done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew – everything. Then you see what happens and you’re already committed to dates. I’m just sort of putting out feelers this way.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “It’s like, it’s up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.”

29. “It’s like, it’s up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow.”

30. “There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “I think of the Replacements only when they’re brought up to me. For two years, I’m at home, they don’t really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I’m not ashamed of anything we did.”

31. “I think of the Replacements only when they’re brought up to me. For two years, I’m at home, they don’t really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I’m not ashamed of anything we did.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “I’m hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.”

32. “I’m hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.”

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Paul Westerberg Quote: “Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day.”

33. “Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day.”

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