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Wayne Coyne Quotes
American
-
Musician
Born:
January 13
, 1961
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.
Wayne Coyne
Some
,
Metaphysical
,
Telling
We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
Wayne Coyne
Days
,
Records
,
Opposed
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
Wayne Coyne
Song
,
Other
,
Afterwards
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.
Wayne Coyne
Other
,
Endlessly
,
Come
We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
Wayne Coyne
Love
,
Think
,
Better
I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
Wayne Coyne
Want
,
Same
,
Ecstatic
I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.
Wayne Coyne
Embrace
,
Idea
,
Entertainer
I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
Wayne Coyne
Love
,
Think
,
Stopped
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.
Wayne Coyne
Sad
,
Art
,
Depressed
We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
Wayne Coyne
Love
,
Weird
,
Play
Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
Wayne Coyne
Money
,
Never
,
Cat Stevens
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.
Wayne Coyne
Moving On
,
Some
,
Album
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.
Wayne Coyne
Audience
,
Run
,
Which
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.
Wayne Coyne
Work
,
Work Hard
,
Records
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.
Wayne Coyne
Doing
,
Play
,
Sure
We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
Wayne Coyne
Music
,
Made
,
Synch
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.
Wayne Coyne
Falling
,
Synch
,
Meant
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.
Wayne Coyne
Thought
,
Everyone
,
Side
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne
Freedom
,
Believe
,
Weirdo
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.
Wayne Coyne
Think
,
Movie
,
Profession
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.
Wayne Coyne
Still
,
Making
,
Knew
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
Wayne Coyne
Thought
,
Song
,
Covering
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.
Wayne Coyne
Beginning
,
Argument
,
Bad
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
Wayne Coyne
Melody
,
Songs
,
Lot
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.
Wayne Coyne
Here
,
Cut
,
Deal
Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
Wayne Coyne
Young
,
Overcome
,
Brothers
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