Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

I just think a lot of people don't give credit to EDM producers or DJs. People think they're just button pushers and just get on stage and don't really perform.

If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.

I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.

I'm just going to sing my music; I'm going to write my songs, and I think that people get to know me in that sense.

In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

I love playing live and creating these records that people are so into.

People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.

I have a favorite blue Telecaster. It's an old '60-something, which I play at every show. That's probably my favorite all-around stage guitar.

The DJ thing is just a way for me to perform my songs in public. It put me on the map, and a lot of people discovered me because of my DJing and later found out that I made beats.

We never thought we were musicians. We just thought we were in a band.

I adopted this idea whether I was going to end up making music for three people in a bar or Wembley Stadium, I was always going to do music.

I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

I really want to do a cover of Joan Armatrading.

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones - everybody was writing their own songs. That's the way that you established your own identity.

I've never really considered myself a musician.

When I feel it, I got it, 'cause, like, on 'Changes,' I didn't never know what that song was, never knew who it was or who did it, but Tom Brenneck asked me to do that song.

I don't think a lot of people know what a real artist I am. I don't think they know I write my own music.