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As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything – I just enjoy music.

Darren Criss

As a composer and as a musician I’m a true believer – and this is not to be overly diplomatic – I’m a believer that there’s artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There’s art in absolutely everything.
DARREN CRISS

Art Musician Symphony
I mean, come on, Beyonce’s the queen of pop music. She’s the queen. If you could run for queen… I would put her name in the suggestion box. She’s incredible.
DARREN CRISS

Incredible Mean Queens Running
I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
DARREN CRISS

Ideas People Thinking
Please don’t kill me, I’m nice.
DARREN CRISS

Kill Me Nice Please
I’m super annoying, I’m the kind of guy that if there’s no recycling bins around I hoard plastic bottles, put them in my bag and I bring them home. If I can afford it I want to put solar panels in.
DARREN CRISS

Bags Guy Home
I’ve been lucky enough to work with the amazing Golden Globe Award winning Chris Colfer and that is fantastic. I get to work with him on a day-to-day basis and he is such a generous talent.
DARREN CRISS

Character Enough Fantastic Fun Lucky Winning
It’s been a secret too long, but I’m actually a straight male.
DARREN CRISS

Long Males Secret Straight
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don’t feel guilty about it
DARREN CRISS

Believe Guilty Pleasure
Be nice people, cause nobody likes an asshole.
DARREN CRISS

Likes Nice People
Sometimes I pretend to be an octopus. But then people are like ‘Darren what’re you doing?’ And I just sit there and laugh because they’re not cool enough to be an octopus and I’m just like ‘Hah you’re just jealous because you’re not an octopus.’
DARREN CRISS

Enough Jealous Octopus People
I just hope I can continue to do work that matters to me, I’m not interested in being any kind of superstar or anything I’m not. I’m just a dude who got lucky and an artist who cares about the work that I do.
DARREN CRISS

Artist Cares Hope Lucky
As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything – I just enjoy music.
DARREN CRISS

Enjoy Musician Values
I’ve always been the annoying kid who sang.
DARREN CRISS

Always Annoying Kids Sing
The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.
DARREN CRISS

People Trying Years
No one’s tried to stab me. That’s cool. I enjoy not being stabbed.
DARREN CRISS

Cool Enjoy Stab
There’s not a damn thing that I do on my own that’s not for my fans or for people that have supported me. So, I don’t really care about my agenda, I wanna be on yours.
DARREN CRISS

Agenda Fans People
I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.
DARREN CRISS

Concepts Fairytale Stories
I’m always just waiting for someone to cut me off; I’m a chatty guy.
DARREN CRISS

Cutting Guy Waiting
I know. I’m Darren. I don’t know what I’m doing here.
DARREN CRISS

Business Darren Knows Risky
After gaining the incredible platform from ‘Glee,’ it wasn’t so much of a decision to get involved as it was an opportunity to take part. I’ll be honest, I’m not so much into the idea of one cause being more important than another; however.
DARREN CRISS

Believe Cause Decision Fall Important Opportunity
I’m this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn’t match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.
DARREN CRISS

Mirrors People Thinking
I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.
DARREN CRISS

Mean Someday Theater
I don’t shave when I’m not working.
DARREN CRISS

Country Shave Working
I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I’m happy when I land on the roof.
DARREN CRISS

Always Land Moon Roof
No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live.
DARREN CRISS

Long Music Musical Performance Play
When you’re an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.
DARREN CRISS

Artist Expect Nothing
As long as it’s live, it’s the best because there’s sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you’re at the whim of so many different forces.
DARREN CRISS

Connection Different Long Performer

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything – I just enjoy music.

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