David Lynch quotes and sayings
I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of money, and that was the tradeoff. But, music and picture can marry in a beautiful way, and the reverse also.
David Lynch quotes
- Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
- People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.
- The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
- A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
- Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.
- I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
- I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
- Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.
- I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.
- I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.