Jim James Quotes

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

I don't really consider my music anything other than 'moody.' I don't know if that's a genre.

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

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

The first album is dark and introspective - tailor made for England.

I love futurist music.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

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 think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.

I'm not making music to get played in a club.

In Sonic Youth, at the end of 'Expressway to Yr. Skull,' we'd tap on the backs of our guitars to get this low-level feedback, and if I leaned forward, and the guitar hung off my body, it would resonate differently.

I'm not interested in making an album that's just dark and pummelling for an hour, nor am I interested in making a beatless record from start to finish.

If I wanted to make big, bombastic, distorted, echo-y, trippy music, the atmospheric stuff, a studio is nice. But it's nice to know that it's not necessary.

Normally when I do an album, I have a concept behind it.

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

At no time was I trying to write a crossover record.

I like Philip Glass. I think he's made some really great contributions to his field. I love his style of playing - it's very loop-style.

Massive Attack has always been more of an experiment than a band or even a collective.

I think Young Thug has such a weird style I love, especially the things he does with his voice. It just sounds different.

When I discovered minimal music I felt I could create my vision - it was totally different to traditional music.

I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.

The 11-minute 'Colouring of Pigeons' takes The Knife's experimental, cerebral side to new heights.

I admire Brian Eno so much in how he seems to push the idea of less being more - his touch is to crack open a window and let the light in.