Max Richter Quotes

Sigur Ros make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative.

The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.

As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like 'Electioneering' just rips right through me.

After my grunge phase, I started opening my horizons and listening to more electronic stuff. I got into Radiohead, specifically 'Amnesiac' - my brother gave me that album.

Don't get me wrong - I'm still way into the metal, but I've been listening to different things like Radiohead, Portishead, Bjork, and Queens of the Stone Age.

I've put out records over the years, whether it's with Blackfield or No-Man or Bass Communion or Porcupine Tree, that are pop records, ambient records, metal records, singer-songwriter records.

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.

People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

We didn't know music had all these names. We made up SupaFunkRock on a plane when a flight attendant asked us what we play.

Ween is in my top five and have always been a huge inspiration.

I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.

I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.

I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

Maybe that's what makes my stuff different, 'cause I write it all on the bass. I can't play but a few chords on the guitar, so the bass works just fine for me.

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

I grew up listening to bands like the Cure, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance - these are the bands that I actually grew up with, and I always had these things in my taste, too. And I always loved industrial music as well: I listened to Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire. And shoegaze bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine.