Art Quote by Danger Mouse

“Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.”

Danger Mouse

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Art Artist Music Music is Spots Sweet Thirds

More by Danger Mouse

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

Danger Mouse

Image

When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll…

Danger Mouse

Image

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and…

Danger Mouse

Image

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

Danger Mouse

Image

All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means…

Danger Mouse

The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

Danger Mouse

Image

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.

Danger Mouse

Image

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

Danger Mouse

Image

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

Danger Mouse

Image

What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything…

Danger Mouse

Image

After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.

Danger Mouse

Image

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up…

Danger Mouse

Image

Explore all 33 Danger Mouse quotes

More Art quotes

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Aeschylus

Image

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

Aaron Rose

Image

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

Image

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

Image

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

Justina Chen Headley