Latest Wayne Coyne Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Joy, Choices, Risk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• There were a couple of times where I shot things, or started off in one mode and thought, "Well, I really didn't want to do that." I would just change my mind. And frankly, I don't think anybody really cared. I didn't have some producer that had given me $10 million, demanding results. I could just kind of do whatever I thought was right, and move in that way.

  Wayne Coyne

  Couple, Moving, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Beautiful, Dumb, Luck

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Making movie you just think, well, you know what you're gonna do, and you just when it comes down to the very specifics of it, you kind of have to rely on your mode of panic, and how well your imagination and creativity and all that works when you're in that moment. And you know, frankly, I never worried about that. I never worried that as we moved into the very specifics of it.

  Wayne Coyne

  Creativity, Thinking, Imagination

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I always knew, since I'm the one making the movie, if I didn't like it, I'd just simply build another set and do it again. I was the one doing it all, so I never really worried about if I didn't like it. I just thought, "Well, if I didn't like it, I'll just do it again! Who cares?"

  Wayne Coyne

  Care, Worried, Just Do It

  Source: pitchfork.com

• You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of his 800-page novel.

  Wayne Coyne

  Moments, Imagine, Novel

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  House, Together, Computer

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I think making movie is kind of like getting fat people to walk 20 miles. If you just do it 100 yards at a time, and nobody knows how far they are going, they can do it!I would include myself in those fat people! You do this little by little and you don't realize your potential, or you don't realize how really rich, and how far you can go.

  Wayne Coyne

  Thinking, People, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Thinking, Long, Done

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.

  Wayne Coyne

  Thinking, Mind, Want

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• There's a cave, we go inside of ourselves because we want to know more, and we turn this one corner and we go, Oh my god - I didn't know that was in here. We can never go back to the way we were. It's like a horrible car accident - you're never the same after that. It's something that you'll think about every day for the rest of your life.

  Wayne Coyne

  Thinking, Car, Rest Of Your Life

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.

  Wayne Coyne

  Mind, Isolated

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.

  Wayne Coyne

  Pain, Suffering, Accepting

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that.

  Wayne Coyne

  Pain, Want, Down And

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

  Wayne Coyne

  Artist, Musician, Sensitive

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  Pain, Suffering, World

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

  Wayne Coyne

  World, Want, Sometimes

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.

  Wayne Coyne

  Love Is, Magic, Gravity

• Your life is built on when love dies.

  Wayne Coyne

  Life Is, Built, Dies

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Love is larger than life.

  Wayne Coyne

  Love Is, Larger Than Life

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Advertising agencies come to you and they are great fans, they are great creative people themselves, but they ask you to do something, and you say, "Well, we will, we'll create something together." And it is work. It's like you're doing something and they're saying, "Change this" and "Change that." It's not hard, horrible work, but creatively it's not just freedom.

  Wayne Coyne

  Agency, People, Creative

• 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

  People, Creative, Lucky

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  World, Want, Bunch

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.