John Lurie Quotes & Sayings

“I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.”

“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, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.”

“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. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?”

“I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.”

“Acting scares me.”

“But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.”

“I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.”

“I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.”

“I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.”

“If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.”