Flying Lotus Quotes

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.

I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the '50s, and I realized that I didn't fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

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.

I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered the best thing ever, so I had to leave it be for a long time. But now I'm rediscovering it. I'm approaching jazz in a different way.

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

The most important thing is that you like the music.

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

I lived for music since I could think.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.