Jamie xx Quotes

Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whatever - not saying they was rock, but they had a little rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it.

What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.

What I can offer the game is creating a sound that, when you hear it, you know it's mine.

Waka Flocka Flame, some of his lyrics are, like, common sentences. But just the way he is, and the way he delivers it, makes it this crazy metal hip-hop.

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.

I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.

By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.

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

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

There is a solo on 'Spiders,' albeit a kind of a non-traditional solo, but that's what I love.

Nothing I do is ever void of melody. I know it might seem like I'm doing a lot of rapping, but I'm always utilizing tone and trying to find a key signature. So, I don't look at myself as a rapper.

The 'Aldous Harding' record isn't easily placed because it wasn't trying to sound like anything. It was quite organic.

My music isn't rappity-rap-rap-rap.

As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.

I feel like Rae Sremmurd is just a whole new sound culturally. People don't understand, but they learn to understand. The melody choice is different and everything.

We listen to a lot of hip hop. They're the ones that are trailblazing. It used to be rock, but it's really turned to hip hop, and they're doing really unique and cool things, and we wanted to do that, too.

If you make modern rap music, how do you write without ripping off anyone else? It's just about having a distinct voice in your songs.

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.