Jon Hopkins Quotes

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

We're thrilled to play an offbeat place. Our music fits with it. I love playing unusual venues.

My idea is to take the improvisational excitement that takes place with Carnatic music and juxtapose that in different sonic contexts.

Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs.

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

We wanted 'At Dawn' to be what it was: kinda spaced-out.

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.

I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.

We love the idea of putting out music in a non-conventional way.

Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.

I love futurist music.

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.