Nicolas Jaar famous quotes

I’ve watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.
-- Nicolas Jaar

#Couple #Thinking #Jurassic Park

You go from having fun doing something to having it become your life without you realizing it. It can be weird and dark, but every single time I have a dark thought that makes me think dark about that, I tell myself, "Stop, you're stupid. This is great."
-- Nicolas Jaar

#Fun #Stupid #Dark

I hate thinking about what I'm doing. I wish I didn't think about it at all.
-- Nicolas Jaar

#Hate #Thinking #Wish

Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without a band, and I wasn't interested in collaborating with anyone.
-- Nicolas Jaar

#Band #Type #Convenience

I really feel like I came out of the water when I graduated from college, because I wasn't really aware of what was going on. If certain people tried to take advantage of me or whatever, I never really realized it until I got out of school.
-- Nicolas Jaar

#School #College #People

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.
-- Nicolas Jaar

#Senior #School #People

I’ve watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.
-- Nicolas Jaar

#Couple #Thinking #Jurassic Park

Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown.
-- Nicolas Jaar

#Hate #Sometimes #Mindset

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.
-- Nicolas Jaar

#Remember #Curious #Explaining

Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus

Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.

When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.

I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

I’ve watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.