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
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.
american-musician element music
When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
american-musician falling itself meant mind music synch though
Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
american-musician endlessly kids people
It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.
american-musician britney fanatical intended people side spears
We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.
american-musician backstage believe broke guy hard publicist realised saw seven worked
Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
american-musician argument knew legal song songwriter sounds sure
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
american-musician current great music records shoot
It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
american-musician music
We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
american-musician money
Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
american-musician believe damaged freedom given people
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
american-musician excited gap hits itself mind music stretching
In this gap where your mind is stretching itself to keep the music going it hits you as a new music experience. We were excited about it.
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.
artist musician sensitive
We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.