Flume Quotes

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.

Yeah, I've always wondered what it would be like to make music that's not nostalgic at all, and it's really, really hard for me to imagine.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

The only person who really impressed me with making new music is Cudi. Everyone else seems to be jumping on the same music, the producer-made stuff, but the one person that's made new music to me is Cudi.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

I've always been very progressive and as much as I play Old World music, I have this progressive tenacity to keep adding futuristic elements in subtle ways where you won't notice.

I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.

I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.

When I read about Gram Parsons' dream of this Cosmic American Music when I was in my late teens, that stuck with me: that idea, that ambition, to draw off the roots of music but take it somewhere fresh.

Tame Impala's music revisits a time when guitar effects and studio tricks were music's newest frontiers; when rock was barely old enough to drive and violently threw conventional ideas out the window.

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

People usually call me for experimental songs.

I think Thurston's and my weird tunings lent Sonic Youth a very different sound from the get-go. In the band's 30 years - aside from covers - there are maybe two or three songs we wrote using traditional tuning.

Music moves forward so quickly; music is an accumulation of knowledge, and musicians keep getting better and better.

When 'OK Computer' came out, that was so crazily different from anything that I'd ever heard; it was just amazing.

'The Whale' was in the category of so-called serious music, and yet it brings together a wide series of musical styles. It was influenced by people such as The Beatles, the spirit of the times, and I think 'The Whale' certainly had a pop element to it.