Jon Hopkins Quotes

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

I like to make great albums.

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

When I'm in a session with an artist, my job is to help execute their vision - so it's whatever story they're telling, and the news doesn't specifically affect that.

'Pump' was my first song.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

There is a whole team behind the success of a film song.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

I've always wanted to make a record.

I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me, it's all about find the people that can help make my vision come true.

If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.

I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.