As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway. Wayne Coyne More Quotes by Wayne Coyne More Quotes From Wayne Coyne 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 sadness share comfort Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful. Wayne Coyne beautiful-life quality beautiful You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that. Wayne Coyne want sometimes world I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person. Wayne Coyne creative moon dark Sometimes you just have to say, “...I don't know what we are doing, let's just go and see what happens.” You have to embrace the experience itself, so that things you didn't intend to happen can make your work more authentic. And you have to hope that it works. Wayne Coyne embrace happens sometimes Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves. Wayne Coyne lucky mind trying I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness. Wayne Coyne madness good-things thinking 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 imagine novel moments 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 lucky creative people Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy. Wayne Coyne perspective healthy creative 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 imagination thinking The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about. Wayne Coyne creativity singing thinking I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'. Wayne Coyne car believe thinking We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat. Wayne Coyne sweat play people 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 Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Whenever you're sweating, you're adding to your potential to enjoy the day or enjoy the moment or enjoy your life. Wayne Coyne sweat moments helping Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards. Wayne Coyne titles song sometimes I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there. Wayne Coyne alive want people 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 just-do-it worried care 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
