Music Quotes by David Lynch

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

— David Lynch

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE…

— David Lynch

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

— David Lynch

I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

— David Lynch

Angelo Badalamenti brought me into the world of music and that's really what gave me permission to get into it even though…

— David Lynch

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of…

— David Lynch

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space…

— David Lynch

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I…

— David Lynch

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful…

— David Lynch

I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of…

— David Lynch

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and…

— David Lynch

I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's…

— David Lynch

Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has…

— David Lynch

A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful.…

— David Lynch

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and…

— David Lynch

“This idea comes to you, you can see it, but to accomplish it you need what I call a "setup." For example,…

— David Lynch

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's…

— David Lynch

A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music…

— David Lynch