Twenty Øne Piløts Quotes

✨1✨ Power to the Local Dreamer

This is the whole speech of power to the local dreamer :)
If you wanna listen to him talk while reading it, I put the video of his speech at the top

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"My name is Tyler and I wanted to start a band...
So I picked a name, a logo, and wrote and recorded songs in my basement.
I really had no idea what I was doing...
All I knew was that music did something to me.
What I did know was that I needed help bringing these songs to life on stage...
Then I met Josh.
A kid with no plan B. He lived and breathed plan A, music, and I liked that he beat the crap out of his instrument.
Then we played shows, all kinds of shows. It never really was disgust, we just knew that we had no choice but to play with as much conviction for 5 people, as we would for 5,000.
We wanted our shows to be more about others than about ourselves... Creating an unpredictable but always beautiful dance with the people in the crowd.
Honesty and authenticity works, and as it turns out, people want to be a part of that.

9,765
Turns out it doesn't take a million likes to get the music industry's attention.

The next three months were the craziest months of our lives.
Out of nowhere, we had a dozen labels interested in our small local band, taking us completely off guard.
We had questions...
Would we lose creative control? Would we be turned into something we are not? Can we keep doing what we are doing the way we are doing it? Are we selling out?
Encouraged by the answers to those questions, we signed a record deal with a label called Fueled By Ramen.
A record deal.
But it's just the beginning.
We cannot wait to see what the future holds for us and our fans.
And so then we say...
We never got a big break. You created our big break. Thank you.

So if you are pursuing your dreams, pursuing what it is you're passionate about, I hope this story encourages you.
And if you know someone who is, encourage them with this:

Don't give up. Push through the droughts. Channel the inevitable disappointments back into your craft.
Break molds.
Think.
Create.
But most importantly...
Stay Alive.
And in the meantime, make it about others. That seems to work.

Stay strong. Live on. And power to the local dreamer."

-Tyler Joseph
Twenty Øne Piløts