Jim Jarmusch Quotes

I take random inspiration from everywhere.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing.

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything. It'll find the person or persons who are supposed to do it.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.