David Longstreth Quotes

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

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.

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

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

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

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

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

I feel like my music has so many different things going on. I've always worked with many different producers. And a lot of times, each of them has a different thing that I really love about what they do.

As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.

I think, for me, a way to really come up with new ideas and come up with new ways of writing music is to create a unique sound palette or soundscape for all the films I'm working on.