Danielle Dax Quotes

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

I'm thinking about recording everything to tape like it's 1991 and seeing how that sounds.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

Art is significant deformity.

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

I think part of what made the original 'Sufferfest' charming was the extremely low production value. It was all shaky handheld footage from Cedar.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.

I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.

It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?

I'm unpolished, I guess.

I always want to try to make films feel timeless, because one of my biggest pet peeves is that there's a movie you love, and then you revisit it twenty years later, you show your kid or something, and it's like, 'Oh my God!' with hairstyles and clothing and all that kind of stuff.

A hard copy? It's fire. People want vinyl and cassette tapes - it's just cool to be able to touch it and feel it.

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

I want all that dirt and grime and life-sauce. A lot of my favorite old soul records have it, but you don't hear it on country records anymore.

Everything is so computerized these days and it's all edited and everything. Everything sounds so perfect, and we just want to be a band that sounds like a band.

The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford.

I like the experience being in the audience and being overwhelmed by sound, like thick, oppressive loud sound and distortion.

Eric's Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring. And the density of the distorted parts, amazing.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

Try not to make a straight line crooked.