Song Quotes by Damien Chazelle

13 Song quotes by Damien Chazelle

Damien Chazelle treats song as a narrative engine, much like his film scores. In these 13 observations, he reveals how a track can shape mood, drive plot, and linger like a visual motif.

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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat…

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'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

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As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

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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…

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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a…

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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in…

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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not…

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There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who…

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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that…

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There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out…

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It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people…

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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation,…

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I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician…

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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.

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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

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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…

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