When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA.… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor… — John Lurie Copy Share
I think humor is actually a very serious thing. I think the people who shaped culture, for the better, in the last 50 years… — John Lurie Copy Share
I think the Native Americans had the right idea about preserving and respecting the earth. Not just using it up. We are not the… — John Lurie Copy Share
I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they are done… — John Lurie Copy Share
When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were… — John Lurie Copy Share
The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and… — John Lurie Copy Share
I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings,… — John Lurie Copy Share
I attempt to create a world that hypnotizes me as I make it. I hope others can get lost in it in the same… — John Lurie Copy Share
It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful… — John Lurie Copy Share
The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it. — John Lurie Copy Share
I feel cleaner on the days where I am painting as opposed to the periods when I am not, that is certain to me.… — John Lurie Copy Share
Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz.… — John Lurie Copy Share
