Taika Waititi Quotes

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

I just play music. That makes my whole day. I can practice and be happy.

For me, I need to listen to music in the morning, and after, it's kind of like a shower, you know what I mean? It's kind of getting rid of everything. I always play music after I act. It's not a conscious thing, like, 'Oh finally, I need to do this,' it's kind of a constant need.

At home I have a mixing desk that I like playing around on. It's great fun making music myself. And music has always been a very good counterbalance to football for me. It allows me to switch off and relax.

Melody's like tweezers that go into the infection and pull out the wounded part. You can almost not stay silent in the face of a melody that matches your emotion. You feel seen.

A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.

My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don't play them for anyone.

You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!

I enjoy making music more than anything in the world. It's the only thing that it's felt the same since I was like 15.

When I play music, I realize that it filters emotions. I believe that peoples' voices are expressed in their emotions, and I try to do the same with my music.

I personally don't know what nerves are. I don't get scared when I'm going to play music. But I think something, maybe my fears, are buried into my songs. Because I'm singing them.

I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.

For me, music is for the soul - no matter whether the song is composed by me or by someone else.

You're able to get into somebody's brain through song.

Music has been my way of expressing what I've been feeling.

Music is my soul and I can easily say, it is the secret of my youth.

Music has always been an important part of my life.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

I know for me, music was the best drug for anxiety. So that's why I wanted to write the music that I do, because it always suits my anxiety. It's a huge part of my life, and being able to make music that can help people with their anxiety is a huge thing for me.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.