Danger Mouse
Danger Mouse
Musician, songwriter, and producer who helped Gnarls Barkley release "Crazy" in 2006 who also released The Gray Album in 2004.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusic Producer
Date of Birth29 July 1977
CityWhite Plains, NY
CountryUnited States of America
kind figures ifs
If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
bunch cool great people work
Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.
drawn music people
I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
daft fit normally
Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
create good music quitting time
When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
gonna love older visions
When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
art talking people
If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.
moving people challenges
Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
sweet artist spots
Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.
people band wake-up
I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"
world band done
What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.
musician enough position
The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.
believe thinking years
If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.
morning mean thinking
In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.