Brian Posehn Quotes

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

Chatterers are a menace.

Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!

These days, you're always surrounded by music and sounds, whether you're in the mall or a subway car.

I can't work without music.

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

I've been to a couple of restaurants in L.A. that were so loud, I left there with a sore throat; you literally could not have a conversation. I think it's very deliberate: There's this idea that somehow it's more fun if there's a roar in the room.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.

About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.

Street lights, dog-doo and parking meters are not my cup of tea.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.