Quotes from artists that inspired you

[symmetricalsounds]

"What would you not do?"

Brian Eno from Oblique Strategies http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/bria ... lique.html

[Depone]

Something really insparational:

"I'm pissin' on grown women. R. Kelly do it to children."
- 50 Cent, Come & Go

http://www.snacksandshit.com/

[RandomEyez]

aphex interviews, just like the burial ones need to be taken with a grain of salt and not 100% literal fact
seeing as they both have a somewhat mythos/character to play

Vaild point.

[AllNightDayDream]

Everything Bassnectar said in the moboogie interviews. Still my favorite interview.

Holy shit, never knew about these. Am halfway through pt 2, good stuff. Thanks for the heads up.

np After I saw them I was like "I'm not alone!"

He's so much more than a musician. I don't ever have to take drugs to enjoy his shows. All night day dreamin

[JFK]

Well I am still living in that haze that dubstep is about a dark room with a big system, peoples with their heads down and trigger fingers in the air. - Legend4ry

[Basic A]

Well I am still living in that haze that dubstep is about a dark room with a big system, peoples with their heads down and trigger fingers in the air. - Legend4ry

That.

[legend4ry]

standard! I did another interview recently, actually since you all enjoyed reading the last one...

Its only for the iphone (a app blog thingy) so I put a note of it on my facebook fan page.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_i ... 2961561916

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[Shekul]

standard! I did another interview recently, actually since you all enjoyed reading the last one...

Its only for the iphone (a app blog thingy) so I put a note of it on my facebook fan page.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_i ... 2961561916

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Great read.

[craig]

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[wormcode]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/cult ... art-1.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/cult ... art-2.html

"I loved a good high. And if you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep. There's songs zooming around everywhere. There's songs zooming through here right now, in the air... You've just got to put your hand out and catch them."

[macc]

"Playing isn't something I do at night. It's my purpose in life"

Elvin Jones

[dj nation]

'Dance like no one's watching' - Skream n Benga

haha i just thought it was well said

[looney]

I feel pity for those persons who make so much ado about the transitoriness of all things and lose themselves in the contemplation of earthly vanity. Why, we are here for the very purpose of making the transitory imperishable, and this can be done only if we know how to appreciate both conditions.

-goethe

I’m a native New Yorker, as you can probably tell. I think all music comes from a time and place. The Beatles come from ‘60s England, Kurt Weill comes from Weimar Republic in Germany. Bach comes from Eastern Germany. I come from New York and the West Coast in the 1960s and ‘70s. The composers we know and love give honest expression to that. Not by trying to write the great American piece, but just by being who you are. And if you’re honest about who you are, then that music will bear evidence to the honesty of your situation, no matter what it is. What you guys are doing right now is evidence of what’s going on in the world. How well you do it will determine how long and how much interest there is in it. Musical quality doesn’t change. There was this story about George Gershwin meeting Alban Berg, who was a friend of Schoenberg’s. Gershwin was a bit nervous and Berg could tell that, so he said: “Mr Gershwin, music is music.” That’s the kind of truth that stays the case.

-steve reich

reich-at-rbma is pure treasure; steve reich is in the unique position of being a significant figure in the history of music who probably put out his best work decades ago and is still able to say relevent things to kids making music on their computers

[wayoftheworld]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
— Tom Waits

[deadly_habit]

I am finding a way to both maintain more or less the original intention of the tracks while adding some flexibility and interactivity to make it more fun. And as for environments, I obviously prefer silent ones, that way people can appreciate the more subtle elements of the music. They are happy and I am happy. There’s no sense in playing in club or noisier environments, unless that’s the initial intention or it is viewed as a necessary component.
-murcof

[AllNightDayDream]

'Dance like no one's watching' - Skream n Benga

haha i just thought it was well said

Words to live by

[sixth sense]

'If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music' - Gustav Mahler

[AllNightDayDream]

"I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul"
— Lady Gaga

"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."
— Lady Gaga

"I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth."
— Lady Gaga

[Shekul]

Saw this in the ninja hideout.

DJ Shadow -
"I’m keen to not dilute dubstep with my own very distant perception of it. Because I know it has a very fervent, passionate, hardcore base to it. If I didn’t grow up in this country, attending those clubs ten years ago I don’t feel qualified to critique it. I enjoy it and I listen to a fair share of it it but I’m not an expert."

[wayoftheworld]

"All my favorite singers couldn't sing" - Silver Jews (and many others probably)