Santigold Quotes

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

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

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.

Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

David Bowie is my biggest inspiration. Pretty much the only thing that stayed the same with Bowie was his eyes. Everything else constantly changed, from his sexuality to his songs.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I believe what Wondaland is doing is creating depth.

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.

I love Kanye, I love what he does musically, I love his ability to push the envelope.

For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

I'm interested in creating new work.