Danger Mouse Quotes

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.

I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

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.

When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

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.

I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.

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.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

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?"

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.