Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure. "

Related Quotes:

" Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward. "

" I don't really write all that well with others. "

" I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work. "

" It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away. "

" The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it. "

" I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything. "

" When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture. "

" I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way. "

" I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that. "

" I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story. "

" I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation. "

" The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy. "

" The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler. "

" I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse. "

" The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective. "

" There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there. "

" Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it. "

" I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things. "

" One of the great things about music is how it can take you places. "

" Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator. "

" When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally. "

" It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time. "

" In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally. "

" Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art. "

" Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road. "

" I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately. "

" I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about. "

" I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another. "

" When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs. "

" The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things. "