Reggie Watts Quotes - Page 2

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• I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention Ive gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

  Reggie Watts

  Thinking, Goal, Community

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• I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

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  Trying, Annoying, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

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  Creating, Important, Acting

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

  Reggie Watts

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Interview with Julia Edelman, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Decision, Feelings

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• Good comedians are great philosophers.

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  Comedian, Philosopher, Great Philosophers

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• I just think that life is a constant experiment.

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  Thinking, Life Is, Constant

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• 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.

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  Art, Pain, Past

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• Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's completely not true. If you want to create really boring, frustrated human beings, then yeah, cut out art and science.

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  Art, School, Cutting

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• If I'm improvising and I'm not doing well it's because I'm not listening very well. Either I'm overly concerned with something or I'm drifting or maybe I'm too stoned but I'm not getting a clear signal.

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  Listening, Signals, Drifting

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• An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence.

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  Creativity, Artist, Thinking

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

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  Ideas, Creating, Musical

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• 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.

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  Fake, Starting, Shows

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• 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.

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  Acting, Groups, Favorites Things

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• 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.

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  Memories, Years, Twenties

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

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  Art, Ideas, Machines

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

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  Skills, Priorities, Way

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• Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.

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  People, Listening, Groups

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid.

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  Growing Up, Stupid, Talking

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• 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.

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  Our World, People, Decision

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

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  Giving, Understanding, Fascination

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• 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.

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  Art, School, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Years, Audio, Kind

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• 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.

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  Believe, Mean, Ideas

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• There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.

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  Piano, Different, Three

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