Damien Chazelle Quotes

Becoming a musician is a strange thing. It's not all cupcakes and ice cream. You're trying to master an instrument, and you sometimes can't tell if you're getting better. You love it, but you also hate it.

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

The problem is I'm a perfectionist, so the producer might say he's happy with my vocal take but I'll say, 'No, it can be better.' I'll do it again and again until I feel I've got the truth out of a song.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

I'm a very tough critic of my guitar-playing. Sometimes I don't even want to do it anymore.

I love music - really a lot. That's why I do it. But mine just never makes it, to me. There's always something wrong with it, something I want to change. But I like that, because at least it keeps me looking, trying to find ways I can improve, which obviously are a lot.

I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.

The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.

I want everything to be perfect, if I'm going to do it.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.