Suzuka Nakamoto Quotes

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

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

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

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it's head music.

London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

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.

My genre of music is called Afro-Fusion because I fuse different types of music into a ball.

Those that know me know that I'm not 100% in love with commercial pop music. It's not my preferred genre - I don't do squeaky clean pop.

I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.

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

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

Rock and ambient music might as well reside on opposite sides of the galaxy, so it's almost shocking when a band like Deerhunter melds the two so effectively.

I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.

We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.

Working with Timbaland, you know it's not gonna sound like anything else out there today. The sound is very next-level.

My music isn't mainstream music.