Flume Quotes

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I've worked with so many different artists, and I'm always willing to expand and do some new fun things as long as the music is fun and the fans appreciate it worldwide.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

Make your own music. It can be done.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.