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Wayne Coyne Biography

Wayne Michael Coyne (born January 13, 1961) is an American musician. He is the lead singer, occasional backing vocalist, guitarist, theremin player and songwriter for the band the Flaming Lips.

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The movie that we could've finished in 2001 would've sucked. The movie that we could've finished in 2002 would've just been a disaster, even into 2003, it would've been very cobbled together, amateuristic stuff. But as we went along, we really did stumble upon some accidental themes, and with the things you could do with computers, and all that sort of stuff just sort of really accelerated into where the stuff that we could do right here at my house became - you could almost do anything.

Cobbled, Computer, House, Movie, Stumble, Together

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.

Dealing, People, Pushing, Thinking, Want

I think that's what centers me the most - all my people, all my animals.

Animal, Animals, Centers, People, Think, Thinking

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.

Context, Happenstance, Longed, Lucky, Mind, Trying

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.

Accepting, Know, Pain, Suffering

Your life, unfortunately - and I mean this - your life is built on when love dies. There's a lot of love in your life that will simply die. And you wish that you died with it, you know? But you don't. And you go, oh, well, here I am.

Built, Dies, Here I Am, Love, Mean, Wish

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

Embrace, Happen, Happens, Say, See, Sometimes

We love playing music but were too weird to play music.

Music, Play, Playing, Playing Music, Weird

Some people, they don't want to be that loved, they don't want to be that involved, they don't want to be part of your family. That's where the pain comes in. You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

Involved, Loved, Pain, People, World

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.

Four, Phones, Scribble, Start, Three

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

Creative, Energetic, Healthy, Perspective, Tied

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

Creative, Happy, Lucky, People

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.

Ipods, Plenty, Simply, Smell, Think, Thinking

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Whenever you're sweating, you're adding to your potential to enjoy the day or enjoy the moment or enjoy your life.

Adding, Helping, Moment, Moments, Sweat

I think when people think of music from coming from Oklahoma, they think of Toby Keith or even Garth Brooks or even Woody Guthrie. People think, "Why do we have to just be about the Bible and about football? Why can't we be about something like the Flaming Lips?" And I salute them! I say, "Well, that's great if you want that. "

Football, Guthrie, Like, Music, People, Thinking

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.

Bands, Beams, Hands, Kind, People, Thinking

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.

Down And, Pain, Road, Say, Want

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.

Art, Experience, Hero, Look, Museum, Thinking

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Embrace, Entertainer, Entertainers, Idea, Ideas

Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.

Decision, Like, Make, People, Shy

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