Danger Mouse famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.
-- Danger Mouse

#Thinking #Good Times #Quitting
I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
-- Danger Mouse

#Wind #Ideas
I find that the kinds of music Im drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
-- Danger Mouse

#People #Kind #Granted
I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
-- Danger Mouse

#Rooms #Dorms #Dorm Rooms
Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
-- Danger Mouse

#Fun #Broken #Bells
No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.
-- Danger Mouse

#Passion #People #Matter
If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
-- Danger Mouse

#Kind #Figures #Ifs
All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.
-- Danger Mouse

#School #Mean #Night
I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
-- Danger Mouse

#Artist #Space #Trying
In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.
-- Danger Mouse

#Morning #Mean #Thinking
I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.
-- Danger Mouse

#Crazy #Believe #Artist
If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.
-- Danger Mouse

#Believe #Thinking #Years
I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"
-- Danger Mouse

#People #Wake Up #Band
Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.
-- Danger Mouse

#Years #People #Listening
If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.
-- Danger Mouse

#Art #Talking #People
A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.
-- Danger Mouse

#People #Albums #Want
I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.
-- Danger Mouse

#Long #Realizing #Shame
The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.
-- Danger Mouse

#Musician #Enough #Position
What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.
-- Danger Mouse

#Band #Done #World
Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.
-- Danger Mouse

#Sweet #Artist #Spots

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