Jon Brion Quotes

#1. I am star-struck but also I've known a lot of people for a long time. Like I'm super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I've known them for 17 years. So it's kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!

Margaret Cho

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

Jon Brion

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

Jon Brion

#4. If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

Jon Brion

#5. You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice.

Patrick Murray

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

Jon Brion

#8. Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

Eric Drooker

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

Jon Brion

#10. I think what's so interesting for me is the different roles that I play. I love doing the research, and I love - I feel fortunate in the sense that I get to explore many different worlds, of things that I may not really get to learn a lot about.

Kim Raver

#11. Losing it in the backseat with a can of beer and a blunt, virginity is of no value. I never celebrated my time before chocolate either.

Komrade Komura

#12. When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.

Jon Brion

#13. The Gospel is not how people get to heaven.
The Gospel is how people get to God.

John Piper

#14. It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.

Jon Brion

#15. It doesn't matter, because I have found my match. It's Nick, laid-back and calm, smart and fun and uncomplicated. Untortured, happy. Nice. Big penis.

Gillian Flynn

#16. If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

Spencer Silver

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

Jon Brion

#18. There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.

Jon Brion

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

Jon Brion

#20. Ah! he would have found it out fast enough if she had been nice-looking. The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another.

Wilkie Collins

#21. 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

#22. I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

Laura Innes

#23. 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 don't mind the fact that it's hard to describe.

Jon Brion

#24. I started singing because I come from Wales.

Bryn Terfel

#25. There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Jon Brion

#27. We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jon Brion

#28. It is only in the presence of God, we find the fullness of life and joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve.

Stephen T. Harper

#30. [Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre.

Jon Brion