Damien Chazelle Quotes

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

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

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

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

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

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

Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that are experimental, I'll be a happy man.

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

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

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

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

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

All my favorite bands are the ones that push the limits and boundaries.

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

My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

Ironically, my tastes aren't that experimental, and I wouldn't describe my music on the surface as being overtly experimental, either.

All I'm interested in is liberating sound beyond all tradition.

I think it's really important to show new styles of song and music. I think that's what people want to see and hear from me.

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

I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

I think we are really in touch with what's going on around us in the world of music, trying to push the bar forward and try new and exciting things that our fans can react to.