As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good:… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person -… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality. — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share
