Wayne Coyne Quotes

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.

Some voices don't blend. They just kinda rub against each other.

We love the idea of putting out music in a non-conventional way.

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

Do not utter words that can create discord and cause the community to break.

I disagree that I'm on the wrong side. I'm just not on your side.

Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.

We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.

My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

Cher and I didn't get along that well.

Ironically, my tastes aren't that experimental, and I wouldn't describe my music on the surface as being overtly experimental, either.

I come from a place of lots of turmoil.

I am used to making people upset and uncomfortable with my lyrical content when it comes to music.

Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that are experimental, I'll be a happy man.

I don't want any drama.

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.