Roger Sessions Quotes

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

Naturally, underground music often gravitates toward experimentation and the abstract. That's understandable, and more often than not, it feels great to dive into a difficult album and swim a few laps.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'

I wanted to create the weirdest show ever made on television - a punky, prog-rock nightmare of lurid colours.

One thing I really like about 'Lucha' is it breaks traditions. It's established it's own identity and a world where the character can be darker, multilayered, even supernatural at times.

I like films that are edgy, provocative, non-formula and original.

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.

I'm not super traditional at all.

I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'

I always liked different things, rare things.