Flume Quotes

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.

Any good music must be an innovation.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?

A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

I make the kind of music I like.