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
almost art happened horrible lives moves music work
Music - music that moves you - usually comes because something horrible has happened to you. It's cathartic. I think music does that better than almost any other art form, because most of our lives are about things that don't work out.
albums art aware blend good
We're aware that we have to be marketable, because at the end of the day, it's about making money, ... So we try to make our albums a good blend of art and commercialism.
art thinking rocks
I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.
artist musician sensitive
We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.
art hero thinking
The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like you and, most tellingly like the same music as you - the only comparable experience these days would probably be an art museum - an actual place where you can stand and simply be surrounded by your heroes.
running artist likes
Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
depressing art so-sad
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.
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We could take the movie around as well, and not just be playing as the Flaming Lips as a rock band. I'm thinking of taking it to theaters and having it be an experience where we bring in giant sound systems, smoke machines, Christmas lights, s--- falls on you from the ceiling and you can smoke pot and do whatever you want. There's something about the communal experience while something intense and unexpected is happening. I'm sure it will come out on DVD and there'll be a soundtrack, but that isn't the real experience.
american-musician cat compared england honoured loved people song
I was in England and I know Cat Stevens told some journalists that he loved our song and was honoured that people compared our song to his song.
audience audiences listen music people perfect
People who listen to our music get it, and the ones that don't -- well, it's not for them anyway, ... Our audience is perfect for what we're doing. We don't feel under-appreciated at all.
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.
computer couple land last within
We transferred it all down to computer land within the last couple of days,
almost available bands became couple format grabbing matter putting recorded revisit room sort sound tapes weird
We remixed them in 5.1, which doesn't sound like much, but let me tell you it's really a crazy, complicated thing to take these things that you did almost 15 years ago and revisit 'em in this format that only became available a couple years ago. A lot of bands can't do that because they don't have their own recordings. But we've always recorded ourselves, so it's a matter of me just going to the back room and grabbing the tapes and sort of putting them back on the reel. It's a weird treat.
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We really attempted it in a full-force Flaming Lips behemoth production style. We recorded 100 tracks of our beloved pedal steel guitar and 100 guitar overdubs for the music, and for the vocals we stacked all these crazy harmonies. We wanted to add different layers that people might expect from us, but we tried hard not to change the fundamental nature of the song.