Danger Mouse
Danger Mouse
Musician, songwriter, and producer who helped Gnarls Barkley release "Crazy" in 2006 who also released The Gray Album in 2004.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusic Producer
Date of Birth29 July 1977
CityWhite Plains, NY
CountryUnited States of America
gonna love older visions
When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
create good music quitting time
When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
art talking people
If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.
moving people challenges
Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
sweet artist spots
Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.
kind figures ifs
If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
people band wake-up
I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"
world band done
What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.
musician enough position
The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.
believe thinking years
If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.
morning mean thinking
In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.
passion people matter
No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.
years people listening
Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.
dorm-rooms rooms dorms
I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.