Jamie xx Quotes

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.

A lot of people hear things on the radio and try to make their own version of that.

When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.

Twenty percent of my records, you'll find a loop, like two or three loops per album out of 13 or 15 songs. I'd rather keep it like that.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place where it can be appreciated, more than just taking someone's song and doing a 4-bar loop.

Certain key words, like, 'break it down,' 'this is how we do it' - they'll always end up on my tracks.

You're always thinking about making new music.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I think remixes give songs more life.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I take the purest and hardest forms of music... and come in completely fresh from a production standpoint. It's like hip-hop production, because there's a lot of taking the best parts and a lot of the repetitiveness.

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find that with a lot of older Motown music.