TMBG Quotes

Quotes from the Johns and the band

These are just of my few favorite quotes by the Johns and company. These include those from print, from tv interviews, shows I've been to, and shows I wasn't at but found the quotes scattered throughout the web and bootleg mp3s. Basically, if I ran across a quote and enjoyed it, I put it here. I seem to have lots and lots of Flans quotes, and very, very few Linnell quotes. What's up with that? Anywho, Enjoy!

• "This is a song about a hairdo that looks like this. If hairs were fingers, then that's what this would be." - John Linnell
• "Here's a song dedicated to the people we really work for, and that's the CIA. Lock the doors, you're all under arrest." - John Flansbugh
• "If I find that Ric Flair, I'm gonna kick his ass. I'm warning you Rick Flair, it's me Jesus and Hitler. There's no room for you. Get out." - John Flansbugh
• "I'm partial to Pittsburgh with the silent 'h', being Flansburgh with a silent 'h'" - John Flansburgh
• "I'm wearing my little wristband, 'What Would John Linnell Do?". For John is mischevious, and crafty." - John Linnell
• (upon being asked if Linnell ever signs autographs after shows)"Never EVER! He goes back into his cage right after the show." - Dan Miller
• "In an interview John said, 'At a certain point you just get tired of the way the other person breathes,' and I took that pretty hard because I, personally, am infatuated with the way John breathes." - John Flansburgh
• "We can't read your sign and the people behind you want to kill you." - John Flansburgh
• "I don't know how people are drug addicts and do this at the same time. I can't imagine how you'd keep up." - John Flansburgh
• "I ask for a spotlight on the drummer, and as soon as he starts playing you turn the spotlight off!? The drums are the only thing going on for the first sixteen bars of this song, so could we get a spotlight on Dan and keep it on him for awhile?" - John Flansburgh
• "I see us going in the direction of a rock band playing in stinky clubs for the rest of our lives." - John Flansburgh
• "We like playing fun rock music, for the love of it. We only pretend to have a plan for world domination." - John Flansburgh
• "This is a song about being in a nightclub with a band playing really, really loud and trying to have a conversation while the band is playing. People ask us where we get our ideas for our songs.. we have no explanation." - John Flansburgh
• "We'd like to apologize to anyone who is on hallucinogenic drugs for that last song." - John Flansburgh
• "This next song sort of dwells on a universal theme; its about falling in love, falling out of love, then finding that person and killing them." - John Flansburgh
• "If I had had the choice I might have put myself in a different race -- the "most interestingly mismatched socks" poll, perhaps. Maybe then I would have beaten Hank." - John Linnell

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