Wayne Coyne
Wayne Coyne
Wayne Michael Coyneis an American musician. He is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the band the Flaming Lips...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth13 January 1961
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
assumed band money people promoting single trying
It isn't all about some band promoting a single or a promoter trying to make money or something. (When they started), I think people just assumed it would be this disorganized thing.... The more these things work, the more they're successful, the better off these things will be.
audiences bigger good interested music people popular potential reach three
It's good that we have the potential in the marketplace to reach bigger audiences, ... We're three people who are interested in music as art, but most of it won't ever be marketed as popular stuff.
american-musician category fantastic hope radiohead records white win yeah
In a way I hope we don't win because there are some fantastic records in the same category like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radiohead and White Stripes.
computer couple land last within
We transferred it all down to computer land within the last couple of days,
sadness comfort share
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
tunnels light accepting
As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.
sometimes embrace knows
Sometimes you just have to say, “...I don't know what we are doing, let's just go and see what happens.” You have to embrace the experience itself, so that things you didn't intend to happen can make your work more authentic. And you have to hope that it works
phones three four
A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I'll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page.
depressing art so-sad
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.
love-is magic
Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.
mistake thinking making-mistakes
We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
kings suits-you santa
If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.
love-is
Love is larger than life.
work-out people trying
To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.