Obscure Music Quotes

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

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 don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a wedding song. But what's also really cool is songs that no one else would have at their wedding, like an obscure Radiohead song.

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

I must have in stock 3000 songs you've never heard.

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.

I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems.

When I was a kid, it was so important to listen only to bands nobody had ever heard of. I missed out on so much interesting music because of my need to listen to a psychobilly band that only two people knew about... Because I thought I was cool.

Most of the music I'm into wasn't popular when it was being made.

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.

I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe, and these kids know about all this obscure funk and soul that kids over here wouldn't know. I think it's getting better in the States, though, with the age of the Internet.

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.

I like lots of Korean music that most people have probably never heard of. I also enjoy hip hop.

Ricky Washington is from a Baptist church in Miami, Florida, and he can pretty much sing anything. We just started working it up at soundcheck, and holy smokes, it's just great! The audience gets to singing. So there's that stuff to do - find some old obscure R&B stuff - because we can do it justice.