Bjork Quotes

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

I always try to evolve my sound - innovate, improve, be different but still Martin Garrix. It all starts with an idea in my head, which I work on until it starts to shape itself into a track.

When I'm in the studio, I'm experimenting, trying things on.

Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write. I come up with it and put things in different piles.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

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.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.

I think with everything I do, I'm trying to just come up with new ways of creating music and mixing styles together. That's just what's fun for me to do, to try to make myself inspired.

I say most of my music is very trial-and-error.

What really excites me is the production. I get in there and change a lot of stuff.

I'm influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I'm constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.

Lensko is a friend of mine with a great talent! The way he progresses his tracks is so unique, just the way he puts everything together is so different from what I usually hear nowadays in the EDM-world.

I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.

Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.

I design music; I don't produce it.

So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.