Patrice Leconte Quotes

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Gerald Wilson was one of my mentors: he was in his nineties before he passed and, literally, every time I saw him, he'd be like, 'Man, Kamasi, I've got this new thing! Nobody ever heard anything like this before!' It's amazing hanging out with somebody that was born in 1918.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age, people are full of ideas and their best self. I wanted to dig into my potential and bring out my best self.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

I feel like the youthful experience is what drives the creativity, and I feel like experience and maturity as an adult, experience as an elder statesman, that refines it.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.