Porter Robinson Quotes

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

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.

I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

My favorite songs change every year.

Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.

I don't think I listen to anything that I did when I was 17. I've changed a great deal.

I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.

I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer's voice or I have no interest in it.

I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.

I've always been a fan of Drake's. I wouldn't say I listen to all of his music, but I would say that I pick tunes out of his that I love and then put them on repeat.

I would watch movies and listen to music that you wouldn't think a child would listen to.

Pretty much everybody loves music. Like, there are those weird people that don't like music, and I don't really understand that at all, to be honest.

I don't really listen to my old music.

The first album I bought, I didn't even buy it. My grandma got Mike Jones and Bow Wow's 'Wanted' a little later. Matter of fact Ying Yang Twins' 'U.S.A. Still United' was the first album, but Mike Jones was the first album I really love.

You can tell a lot about your cooks' personalities by their music collection. I personally have such an eclectic collection, partly due to the combining of music libraries with girlfriends past.

If I switch on the radio and hear some nice classical music, I will sit and listen to it but I don't sort of play records or go for any particular type of music.

Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.

When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.

A lot of people that only like country music, they're not fans of mine.

I am very selfish when it comes to choosing a film. There is no strategy as such; I take up anything that gives me a kick.

I listen to loads of different music all the time.

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music.

I recorded a lot of songs that I knew I didn't like just because maybe part of me wanted to be nice, maybe part of me just wanted to be in the studio, but I've been learning that it's really important to do what you want to do. Even though I might not write all of it, I am still picking out the songs that I want to do. A lot of people who are writing for me are people I have worked with for a while so they know who I am and what I want. I have a lot of opinions and I have learned that it is absolutely okay to express them and to say, "No, I don't want this."