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Damien Chazelle Quotes

I didn’t feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel Picture Quote #1

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost Picture Quote #1

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009 Picture Quote #1

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 it Picture Quote #1

I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that’s not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter Picture Quote #1

As delicate as ‘Guy and Madeline’ was, it was important that ‘Whiplash’ come off as more of a fever dream Picture Quote #1

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As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college Picture Quote #1

As a drummer, you’re always fighting for a level that you never quite attain Picture Quote #1

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality Picture Quote #1

It’s interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It’s giving that person a lot of power Picture Quote #1

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it Picture Quote #1

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit Picture Quote #1

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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be Picture Quote #1

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I didn’t feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel (Damien Chazelle Quotes) I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost (Damien Chazelle Quotes) Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009 (Damien Chazelle Quotes) 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 it (Damien Chazelle Quotes) I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that’s not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. (Damien Chazelle Quotes) As delicate as ‘Guy and Madeline’ was, it was important that ‘Whiplash’ come off as more of a fever dream (Damien Chazelle Quotes) As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college (Damien Chazelle Quotes) As a drummer, you’re always fighting for a level that you never quite attain (Damien Chazelle Quotes) At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality (Damien Chazelle Quotes) It’s interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It’s giving that person a lot of power. (Damien Chazelle Quotes) One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it. (Damien Chazelle Quotes) I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit. (Damien Chazelle Quotes) My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be. (Damien Chazelle Quotes)

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