Local Scene Quotes

I like the dirty venues better - Brixton Jams is like home.

I like to play small clubs.

In the music business, we're much better off staying in Bath - we don't get involved in the competitiveness, where you've got to be seen in the right places and music kind of takes second place.

Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... it's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town.

I think I'll always live in Fort Worth. It's great that I can now go anywhere I want to play music, but I love coming back here. I can roll down the streets and just reminisce.

I grew up with park jams. That's how I knew about rap... The local MCs would grab the mic and start rapping. I just used to be so in awe and fascinated and like, 'Wow, this is amazing!' But I would never, ever touch the mic. Heck no.

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

My music experience living in Baltimore was life-altering. To this day, there is no scene that works as hard or puts as much effort into their art.

I'm a fan of some of the hyphy stuff. Hyphy has been going on a lot longer than the press has been recognizing it.

I think you are always influenced by your surroundings and where you grow up. Your environment is always one of the things that shape you, and the music scene in Iceland was a very important factor in shaping me.

Where I live, every band ever comes through, and you can see anything you want, pretty much.

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

I'm just used to the L.A. music life.

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.

Before I started Brainfeeder, there were rumblings in our own circle about creating a label for us all. Then I started to see all these other ones from Europe try to capitalise on the scene. It didn't make sense to me that there were all these people who were trying to build on something that was in our backyard.

Though we love the big exposure, our true love and passion is for the intimate club shows.

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

It's weird because I grew up in this town, so the things I really dug, I was constantly around them. Like Alyssa Milano - I had the biggest crush on her from TV, but I also saw her around town at parties. It's just funny.

To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.