Unorthodox Music Quotes

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

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

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

When I was growing up, I was always looking for the most willfully uncommercial music: Whether it was Captain Beefheart or Frank Zappa or King Crimson, that's what attracted me.

I am surely happy to be breaking away from the norm when it comes to my songs.

There was a period in music that didn't suit what I did. I didn't fit in.

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.

I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.

So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.

I am used to making people upset and uncomfortable with my lyrical content when it comes to music.

I've put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges to myself, thoughts I was keeping myself busy with, nothing I had any intention of anybody grasping onto.

I like a lot of weird songs.

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.

There obviously are a hell of a lot of people that love Lady Gaga. But to me, she's been the theatre of the absurd. And the more absurd it is, the bigger she got.

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

We love the idea of putting out music in a non-conventional way.

In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

Making 13-minute tracks is pretty alternative, I think!