Best Wayne Coyne Quotes & Sayings

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. — Wayne Coyne

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy. — Wayne Coyne

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. — Wayne Coyne

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there. — Wayne Coyne

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed. — Wayne Coyne

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. — Wayne Coyne

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that. — Wayne Coyne

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation. — Wayne Coyne

Love is larger than life. — Wayne Coyne

When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat. — Wayne Coyne

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. — Wayne Coyne

You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it. — Wayne Coyne

We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that. — Wayne Coyne

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

Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway. — Wayne Coyne

I think the more music becomes something you could simply download and have on your iPod, I think to a lot of people that is plenty, but to some people, they still want these artifacts that are touchable, and you can smell them, and look at them, and hold them and just have other dimensions of experience with this music. — Wayne Coyne

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat. — Wayne Coyne

It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole. — Wayne Coyne

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. — Wayne Coyne

Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things. — Wayne Coyne

We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind. — Wayne Coyne

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. — Wayne Coyne

Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves. — Wayne Coyne

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow' — Wayne Coyne

There's a cave, we go inside of ourselves because we want to know more, and we turn this one corner and we go, Oh my god - I didn't know that was in here. We can never go back to the way we were. It's like a horrible car accident - you're never the same after that. It's something that you'll think about every day for the rest of your life. — Wayne Coyne

I don't know where the sun beams end
and the starlight(start of our lives) begin(s), it's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what's right for his own life, it's all a mystery. — Wayne Coyne

The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about. — Wayne Coyne

Your life is built on when love dies. — Wayne Coyne

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness. — Wayne Coyne

You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young. — Mike Lowry

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. — Wayne Coyne

I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person. — Wayne Coyne

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. — Wayne Coyne

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him. — Wayne Coyne