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Sean Lennon
American
Musician
About the author
I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Friends
#Entertainment
I like music because it's the only invisible art form.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Art
#Music
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Day
#Inspiration
I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Play
#Press
I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Help
#Guitar
I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Life
#Film
#Dream
#Myth
I like songs that go to different places and then come back.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Songs
I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Songs
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Ideas
#Books
I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Time
#Life
#Art
#Information
#Trying
I try not to do anything by formula.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Formula
Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
#Will
#World
#Play
#Being
#Power
#Positive
#Change
#Music
#Famous
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Work
#Dream
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Trying
#Music
#Talking
#Father
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#World
#Today
#Language
#Trying
#Crisis
It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Play
Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#People
#Fun
#Art
My tendency is to be very experimental.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Now
#Mind
#Music
I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Trying
#Control
I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Now
#Film
#Years
#Future
The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Life
#World
#Peace
#Father
#Brother
#Mom
The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Work
#Feeling
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Love
#End
#Failure
#Betrayal
There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Time
#Pretty
Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#People
#Trying
#Artist
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
Sean Lennon,
American
Musician
#Work
#Being
#Growing up