Wayne Coyne Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Instagram is a great example of you just doing your thing.”
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“I think that most of the people I'm dealing with, they're a lot like me. So I'm not pushing people that don't want to do something; most of the people have a billion things going on, and they love it.”
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“Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.”
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“As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.”
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“I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'”
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“We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on... we just go on there is no mercy killing.”
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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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“Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.”
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“We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.”
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“The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like you and, most tellingly like the same music as you - the only comparable experience these days would probably be an art museum - an actual place where you can stand and simply be surrounded by your heroes.”
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“I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.”
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“We love playing music but were too weird to play music.”
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“To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.”
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“If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.”
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“Sometimes you just have to say, “...I don't know what we are doing, let's just go and see what happens.†You have to embrace the experience itself, so that things you didn't intend to happen can make your work more authentic. And you have to hope that it works”
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“I want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That's the kind of stuff that you think all bands should do, but they don't, and I can't understand why most bands don't want to do it.”
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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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“We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.”
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“I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.”
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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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“I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.”
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“If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.”
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“I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.”
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“The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.”
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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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“With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.”
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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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“There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.”
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