Wayne Coyne Quotes

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

I didn't think; I experimented.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I try not to do anything by formula.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Originality is dangerous.

You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.