Flying Lotus Quotes

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song because our memories are what make us who we are.

I probably get most of my inspiration through music.

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

'Tragedy' and 'Loud City Song' are both inspired by stories from the past.

My music comes from my personal background.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

Our music did not sound like the Beatles in any way, shape or form. I could never find it in myself to use those Beatles tricks in Styx records because they were sacred to me. But what they did always influenced my thinking.

A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

Subconciously, the things you listen to and you believe in, those things are going to come out, you know what I mean? I think you take that and make it your sound; that's what I do when I'm putting together genres of music.

I feel like I have to create the Keith Whitley sound. That doesn't mean I can't borrow from the people I grew up listening to, but it doesn't serve any purpose to sing the same kind of songs they sang. When you do that, it's going to come out sounding like an imitation, whether it's meant to or not.

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

I only write when listening to the music.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

Music definitely inspires my design all the time.

Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, you’re listening to everything that’s happened to me since I was 18 years old.