Reggie Watts Quotes
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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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What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.
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When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.
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We're all just memories of our future selves.
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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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Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.
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Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.
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I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.
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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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I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice.
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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.
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When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.
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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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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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Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.
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Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.
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I always composed music as a little kid.
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I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially.
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I'm not into looking crisp. That's not how I dress or who I am.
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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.
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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.
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I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.
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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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Performers always come back from the Edinburgh festival with adventure stories. Watts told a few: meeting a young kilt maker who spent a year in a madhouse after eating too much LSD, and accompanying Seattle actor and musician Michael McQuilken (of Collaborator Productions) to the hospital after a Frisbee accident. He reached up to catch it and cut his hand on a sign, .. He had to get a few stitches, but I think he can still play.
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I just think that life is a constant experiment.
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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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I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority.
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