Reggie Watts Quotes

If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision.

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.

Just remember, everything you are is.

In general, I'm in support of promoting art and science in public schools. I think music and science are probably the most important factors for the human brain developing. Even more so than any other fields, because music covers mathematics, cognitive reasoning, motor skills, coordination, like, it's kind of everything.

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense.

I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority.

What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.

I'm just kind of interested in focusing on what I'm interested in and just kind of solidifying it, or at least experimenting, or actualizing some of the experiments that I've had in my head for years, either filmicly or with audio.

I don't have a 10-octave range. No human being has a 10-octave range.

Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life, or some friends, or yourself, you just have a lot more information about what that memory was. That's exciting to me. It's like a form of time preservation, I suppose.

Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

I think it's important as a performer, no matter where I travel, if I run into someone at the airport or I'm having a conversation on an airplane, run into someone on the sidewalk, or you're waiting on a long line and you start talking to somebody, who doesn't really share a lot of your same views, but then you come to commonality, I think that's very very important as well.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

Good comedians are great philosophers.

I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing.

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.

Whatever encourages people to become more interested in who they are and discovering who they are, as opposed to just accepting what people or things are saying what they are. That's fascinating to me.

If it's physical pain, you just deal with it the best way you can. But if it's more emotional, I don't know. I just try my best to feel it, take it in, and just allow myself to go through whatever may actually come from it. And then a certain amount of it, you can use to transform it through art, which is the healthy way of dealing with it, as well.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen.

I want to be able to make a movie.

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

We're all just memories of our future selves.

Im pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun.

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice.

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

In the past, I was definitely more apt to storing pain away and not worrying about it. But as I get older, it's really about figuring out how to process it, how to feel it, and then also how to use it in my art.

Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level.

Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.

There are things I believe in to a certain extent, as much as a scientist would. And I like, through the means of entertainment, to explore those ideas.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.

It's creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.