![]() ![]() The world of music is a magical thing.įor this album, Crazy Clown Time, where did you start? Did you write these songs first before the recording, or were they born in the studio? Starting to work with Angelo Badalamenti on Blue Velvet, I got more involved with music, and built my own studio to experiment with sound. ![]() Painting led to cinema, and that led to still photography and more painting and to sound. It has to hold people for a couple more hours. A feature film is more complex it’s more like a symphony in many movements. When you listen to music, a multitude of things happen in your mind and in your heart. But sometimes the desert gets smaller and smaller and you find an oasis. And so you don’t know how long it’s gonna be before you find it, and you try different things, and nothing’s working. You know that love is out there but you’re not finding it. When you’re without an idea, when you’re in the wasteland and the desert, it’s torturous. They direct you where to go.Īre you always able to tap into this source of ideas? Or does even the Lynch well sometimes run dry? If you get ideas that you fall in love with about furniture, then you’ll wake up and go to the wood shop. Ideas are what take me to one thing or another. And one of them will make you fall in love. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And you don’t know them until they enter the conscious mind. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. And when you’re in love, that’s a great, great, great feeling.Įverything comes from this unified field within. You need to sit down or you’ll fall down. But one day you’re going down the street and you see one of them, and you can hardly stand. You can go down the street and many, many women are going by. It can be a big idea or a small idea, but you focus on it, and it becomes magically attractive and it brings other ideas in to join with it. Lots of ideas come, but once in awhile one comes and you fall in love. Ideas are hiding in there, in the big within. The discovery is in ideas, whether it’s ideas for a song, a film, a painting. Music, like movies, he explained, “all starts with the idea.” It’s a journey of discovery, about which he happily expounded in that reedy, distinctive, humble and humorous voice, the voice of a man in love with art.īLUERAILROAD: Does your musical journey start in the same way that you approach creating a movie?ĭAVID LYNCH: Yes. So when he released the beautifully mysterious musical journey known as Crazy Clown Time, we asked for an interview with the man himself about music. Ī guitarist who plays “upside down and backwards, like a lap guitar,” he has as much passion for what is heard as what is seen, and like all great artists, also recognizes the mystery and beauty in what is unheard and unseen, delighting in the bridges humans build to connect these realms. Not only did he collaborate intimately with the great composer Angelo Badalamenti on the scores to many of his classic films and “Twin Peaks” too, he’s one of the few directors in history – along with Charlie Chaplin – to compose music for his own films, including Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive. Though famous forever as one of the greatest and most prolific directors of movies Hollywood and the world has ever known, David Lynch is also a long-time musician, guitarist and songwriter. David Lynch in West Hollywood photo by Paul Zollo. ![]()
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