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
people band records
A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
song dollars spotify
The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.
way faces attention
The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
tunes new-life lifetime
Tune into my new lifetime movie. ’Dislocated shoulder’ airing right now,
nashville play construction-workers
If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
sections
There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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.
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.
opportunity people records
And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
country nice people
I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
mother cake parent
I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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.
mixing ethical code
As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.
kids eye feet
I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.