I think if you're lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out. Wayne Coyne More Quotes by Wayne Coyne More Quotes From Wayne Coyne I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don't know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit. Wayne Coyne dying listening father When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat. Wayne Coyne sweat yoga hair There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. Wayne Coyne corny sound song 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 moved-on moving-on years A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I'll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page. Wayne Coyne four phones three Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed. Wayne Coyne so-sad depressing art 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. Wayne Coyne hands people thinking 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. Wayne Coyne love-life giving believe I got very lucky that some of the things that I wanted to work did work. Not because I knew what I was doing, just through dumb luck, it just looked beautiful and sounded great and captured some magical mood. And you just have to hope that you get lucky when you do big things like making a movie, or something. Wayne Coyne luck dumb beautiful 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. Wayne Coyne hero art thinking 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 halloween australia fun I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer. Wayne Coyne entertainers embrace ideas I do think there is a segment of people in Oklahoma that really do love the Flaming Lips and love this other idea of what someone from Oklahoma could be like. I've sort of become the spokesperson for this "other person" who could come from Oklahoma. Wayne Coyne people thinking 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 cutting song thinking 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 different artist running I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time. Wayne Coyne cry want people I think when people think of music from coming from Oklahoma, they think of Toby Keith or even Garth Brooks or even Woody Guthrie. People think, "Why do we have to just be about the Bible and about football? Why can't we be about something like the Flaming Lips?" And I salute them! I say, "Well, that's great if you want that." Wayne Coyne football people thinking We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer. Wayne Coyne records track done We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up. Wayne Coyne making-mistakes mistake thinking I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity. Wayne Coyne caring people thinking
