5 Quotes & Sayings By Wayne Coyne

Wayne Coyne is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Born in Chicago, he formed the band The Flaming Lips in 1983 with his longtime friend and collaborator Michael Ivins. With a sound that defies categorization, they have released over twenty albums since 1993. In the early 2000s the band relocated from Oklahoma to a remote part of rural Oklahoma, where they built a home studio and eventually released seven albums between 2002 and 2012, including the best-selling Embryonic from 2002 Read more

In 2009 they toured extensively throughout North America and Europe as well as headlining two major festivals. In 2012 they released a first album of new material since 2009's "The Terror".

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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
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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. Wayne Coyne
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With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed. Wayne Coyne
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad. Wayne Coyne