Wayne Coyne Quotes
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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Love means home. It's where you're meant to be.
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I love to be tan. Maybe this is the wrong message, but I don't always put sunscreen on.
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I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
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When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
