Wayne Coyne Quotes

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Wayne Coyne

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 13, 1961

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

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It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

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I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

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I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

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Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.

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I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.

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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

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When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.

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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

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Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

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We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.

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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

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