Jon Brion

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution,…

— Jon Brion

I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I…

— Jon Brion

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them.

— Jon Brion

As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.

— Jon Brion

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

— Jon Brion

If you're recording the song on your four-track in your kitchen, when you finished writing the song, you're recording, and it's cool,…

— Jon Brion

The only thing you really have to practice is your ability. And this is something I do all the time. I try…

— Jon Brion

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

— Jon Brion

Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.

— Jon Brion

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

— Jon Brion

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

— Jon Brion

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what…

— Jon Brion

[Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ...…

— Jon Brion

When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and…

— Jon Brion

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

— Jon Brion

It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't…

— Jon Brion

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know?

— Jon Brion

I get to be a musician with my life, so it doesn't even matter if I'm good in it. It means at…

— Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit…

— Jon Brion