Caroline Polachek Quotes

What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a different direction.

I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.

For anyone who doesn't know his work, Andreas Vollenweider is a harpist who creates very atmospheric, new agey music that's totally beautiful.

A lot of my favourite songs have Eno involved, but I love the work he does on the first two Roxy Music albums. He's creating atmospheres as opposed to composition, and it's a beautiful mixture with everything else in that band.

At a time when club music has gone more electronic, I've gone the other way: organic and world music.

I like Philip Glass. I think he's made some really great contributions to his field. I love his style of playing - it's very loop-style.

We got pretty techno on 'Eliminator' and 'Afterburner,' which I enjoyed. I think they're good albums, but we wanted to start using the techno element a little more sparingly.

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

My parents used to play me this album when I couldn't go to sleep. It was called 'Deep Forest.' I think it was a self-titled record. It's actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.

I love futurist music.

'Auto Music' isn't a pop record by any stretch.

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

I listen to music that doesn't have words. I love Kygo - he's tropical house, and that's my stuff!

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

Massive Attack has always been more of an experiment than a band or even a collective.

It's a bit cheeky as a rapper to make a singing album.

At the time, 'Oxygene' was considered a totally 'far out' concept... What was 'in' at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk... and moreover, 'Oxygene' was instrumental. And I was French!

EDM has trained a new generation of listeners' ears to accept a much broader range of what equals a song. EDM has become top 40 stuff: those sounds, those styles, those ways of thinking about song structure - even thinking that vocals aren't necessarily the central element - those ideas have made their way into popular culture.

The first time I saw 'Minecraft,' people wanted to have 8-bit style video game music. But I wanted to go around that and make something organic and partly electronic, partly acoustic, and see if that would be interesting.

I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.