Flume Quotes

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.

When I'm in the studio, I'm experimenting, trying things on.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.

Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.

I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.