Flying Lotus Quotes

Well, I have to have some type of visual in my head to finish a song. I can't finish a song if I can't see anything.

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

I have a very vivid imagination.

I'm just thinking about the vision for how I want my music to go and what I want it to say. I'm always creating in a way, even if it's just thinking about it.

I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I don't always know what the end result is going to be, and I don't know exactly what it's going to sound like, but I can kinda see them.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.