J. C. Watts Quotes

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

Good comedians are great philosophers.

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority.

Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level.

There are things I believe in to a certain extent, as much as a scientist would. And I like, through the means of entertainment, to explore those ideas.

Im pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.

I want to be able to make a movie.

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.

When you're improvising, you're relying on this connection to creativity.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

I always composed music as a little kid.

I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice.

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.

Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.

I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing.

Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

I just think that life is a constant experiment.

I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.

I'm not into looking crisp. That's not how I dress or who I am.

As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time.

I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.

My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk.

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.

When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.

I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.

The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts.

We might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.

Discord on one level is harmony on another

How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And see but shadows of Thy face.

Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.

These dogs didn't bother to bond with us, but stuck out their paws, not to shake hands but so we could slit their wrists and get it the hell over with. (p.51)

When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but to love.

Dreams are pathways for the heart. - Reminim the gnome

the flicker of a memoryis all we can cling tofor our cherished ghostsFrom "Cat Paws on a Windscreen

To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.