189 Quotes by Fred Armisen

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

I'm a fan of Talking Heads going way back.

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.

If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it stays with you and when we are all 90, we're going to look back at those songs, and it's going to be emotional. And when someone plays it, and you know it, and you're going to go, "I know that song and I love it."

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.

I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.

I still feel lucky whenever I hear a director say, "Action!" Because then I think, "Whoa, I'm really in the movies. This is a real thing happening." I've never not been enthralled by that. I still love it. I still love hearing it, and I feel really lucky all the time.