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> [People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/people-like-art-blakey-and-buddy-rich-you-look-at-them-playing-music/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

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## More by Damien Chazelle

> [My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/my-motivation-for-being-a-good-drummer-was-born-out-of-fear-which-in/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/it-s-interesting-when-you-wind-up-distilling-all-your-ambitions-and/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/in-a-weird-way-i-m-always-going-to-ground-myself-i-m-an-insecure-kind/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/real-practice-means-working-on-stuff-you-re-not-good-at-real-practice/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/it-s-a-little-difficult-when-something-goes-from-being-an-utter/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/i-love-the-ending-of-the-wrestler/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/it-was-only-through-getting-interested-in-more-out-there-and-avant/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [I feel like a lot of directing is casting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/i-feel-like-a-lot-of-directing-is-casting/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/if-you-re-an-artist-you-want-to-draw-from-real-life-you-want-to-draw/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/i-was-interested-in-music-and-making-movies-about-musicians-but-my/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/there-are-a-lot-of-musicians-in-my-life-but-movies-came-first-for-me/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/by-the-end-of-high-school-i-had-this-fork-in-the-road-moment-where/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/at-the-upper-echelon-of-musicians-in-general-i-guess-performers-in/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/if-you-want-to-make-a-movie-there-may-be-many-forces-trying-to-pull/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

> [I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-chazelle/i-would-break-a-lot-of-cymbals-you-whack-the-cymbals-hard-enough-and/)

[Damien Chazelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-chazelle/)

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