Top 15 Wayne Coyne Quotes

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.

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.

I embrace the idea that I’m an entertainer.

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.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

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.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

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.

We love playing music but we’re too weird to play music.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn’t live beyond 30 because we’d be so sad and depressed.

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.

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

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.

We made music that wouldn’t be in synch.