I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer. Wayne Coyne More Quotes by Wayne Coyne More Quotes From Wayne Coyne We love playing music but were too weird to play music. Wayne Coyne playing-musicplay It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole. Wayne Coyne blacklosscomforting 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 recordshard-worksound The movie that we could've finished in 2001 would've sucked. The movie that we could've finished in 2002 would've just been a disaster, even into 2003, it would've been very cobbled together, amateuristic stuff. But as we went along, we really did stumble upon some accidental themes, and with the things you could do with computers, and all that sort of stuff just sort of really accelerated into where the stuff that we could do right here at my house became - you could almost do anything. Wayne Coyne computertogetherhouse If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him. Wayne Coyne joggingsuits-youkings 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. Wayne Coyne work-outtryingpeople You can't really get the full joy out of life unless you really go for it. You just have to go into it and stay under some kind of hope or illusion that it's going to work. But as you get older, or the more experiences you have, or whatever it is that tells you how this stuff works, you also know that if you go all the way into it, there's the risk of losing everything but you don't have a choice. Wayne Coyne riskchoicesjoy I call it "being interrupted by success." We had done The Soft Bulletin, which came out in 1999, and we knew we that were gonna make another record before too long. But in between this, we were still in this mode of kind of just - not re-creating what we could be, but kind of doing different things. For the longest time in the Flaming Lips we were like, "Make a record, go on tour. Come back, make another record," and you know, I think, frankly, we were kind of like, "There's more to life than just recording records and going on tour." Wayne Coyne donelongthinking All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware. Wayne Coyne painsufferingworld We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive. Wayne Coyne sensitivemusicianartist Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up. Wayne Coyne gravitymagiclove-is I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too. Wayne Coyne acceptingpainsuffering You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it. Wayne Coyne bunchwantworld Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Wayne Coyne sweathelping Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things. Wayne Coyne carekidsideas Eating good things and being around people who are happy - you want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it. Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life. Wayne Coyne eating-goodcreativepeople Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to. Wayne Coyne i-canaskinganswers I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time. Wayne Coyne pouringlike-youfeels I think that's what centers me the most - all my people, all my animals. Wayne Coyne animalpeoplethinking Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day. Wayne Coyne celebratethe-end-of-the-daylife-is
