Top 40 Wayne Coyne Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Wayne Coyne

2. “Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative – that’s all tied to being healthy.”

— Wayne Coyne

3. “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.”

— Wayne Coyne

4. “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.”

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5. “Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.”

— Wayne Coyne

6. “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.”

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7. “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

8. “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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9. “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’”

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10. “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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11. “I think it’s probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.”

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12. “I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “Even though I don’t have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.”

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15. “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.”

— Wayne Coyne

16. “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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17. “Instagram is a great example of you just doing your thing.”

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18. “Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.”

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19. “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.”

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20. “With out art, without communicating, we wouldn’t live beyond 30 because we’d be so sad and depressed.”

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21. “I’m pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don’t have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.”

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24. “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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25. “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.”

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26. “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

27. “Maybe there’s some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can’t get an answer to.”

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28. “We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “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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31. “We love playing music but were too weird to play music.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.”

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35. “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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36. “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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37. “There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.”

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38. “I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.”

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39. “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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40. “I think if you’re lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.”

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41. “I think that’s what centers me the most – all my people, all my animals.”

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42. “I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn’t know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren’t making fun of Kylie.”

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43. “I embrace the idea that I’m an entertainer.”

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