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Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Wayne Coyne

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Wayne Coyne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 13
Film Director
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Wayne Michael Coyne
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Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.
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I think that most of the people I'm dealing with, they're a lot like me. So I'm not pushing people that don't want to do something most of the people have a billion things going on, and they love it.
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If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
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I always knew, since I'm the one making the movie, if I didn't like it, I'd just simply build another set and do it again. I was the one doing it all, so I never really worried about if I didn't like it. I just thought, Well, if I didn't like it, I'll just do it again! Who cares?
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I think if you're lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.
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We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.
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Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.
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