Jon Brion Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I’m already impressed with them, you know?

People’s association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn’t have to be.

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.