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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.

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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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Going
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Road
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Beauty
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
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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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Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you.
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I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don't know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit.
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Instagram is a great example of you just doing your thing.
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When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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Sometimes you just have to say, “...I don't know what we are doing, let's just go and see what happens.” You have to embrace the experience itself, so that things you didn't intend to happen can make your work more authentic. And you have to hope that it works.
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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.
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I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.
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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 want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That's the kind of stuff that you think all bands should do, but they don't, and I can't understand why most bands don't want to do it.
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I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
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Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.
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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 embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.
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I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.
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Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.
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I do think there is a segment of people in Oklahoma that really do love the Flaming Lips and love this other idea of what someone from Oklahoma could be like. I've sort of become the spokesperson for this other person who could come from Oklahoma.
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