James Blake Quotes

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

Any good music must be an innovation.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.