post quotes that helped to push your creativity

"We went to a label in Manchester that distributed XL. The guy there was like, “Yeah, you need to measure it up more squared like every 16 bars, maybe get a vocal loop in there,

maybe a rock stab would be fresh.” And we’re thinking, “Shut up! This isn’t what we do.” The best thing he said was, “It reminds me of Brian Eno.” But that was an insult from him."

-Rob Brown

"Orange"

-BoC

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eh

"me plus you baby girl lets add and we never divide and we just subtract"

"and my flow is so tip top notch cause im on my raps like a hip hop cop" - lil wayne

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

the quote by the guy who owns Touch records inspired me recently to do exactly what he said musicians shouldn't do

More bass

-Me

I mostly get inspiration from colors.

  On 3/6/2010 at 10:42 AM, Awepittance said:

the quote by the guy who owns Touch records inspired me recently to do exactly what he said musicians shouldn't do

what was it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVsDIv98TA

oh and "do something", saw that floating by on BoC myspace stream sometime

not really a quote, but on the receiving end of a critique from some wine sipping bastard at an art gallery that was just talking shit about everything in the gallery:

"you're not a musician... you're a sound designer!"

i was like... that's coo! and walked away.

"baby police"

"I've done loads of secret things. There are quite a few that no one has come close to guessing. But then, a lot of people think everything electronic is mine.

I get credited for so many things, it's incredible. I'm practically everyone, I reckon — everyone and nobody."

-Richard D. James

sorry i don't really have a quote, but i like these articles about the early idm artists setting up studios in their bedrooms... i've heard that from aphex twin, luke vibert and mike paradinas

i'm a fan of eno's oblique strategies... i don't know if you'd call them 'quotes', necessarily, but they're the same ilk, and if you're stuck on a project, they can definitely help point you in a new direction. they're very open-to-interpretation and can work for more than just music, however.

good online version: http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/oblique/oblique.html

  On 3/6/2010 at 10:42 AM, Awepittance said:

the quote by the guy who owns Touch records inspired me recently to do exactly what he said musicians shouldn't do

But can you quote it though ?

no i tried to find it and i don't want to paraphrase

"This thing I’ve been thinking about recently is how to fuse acoustic sounds, like piano and stuff, with really brutal electronics, but without making the electronics have that sort of plasticy sound,

which I think they often can do in a really bad way in my mind, and it doesn’t complement the acoustic sounds. When I hear stuff like that it’s like tasting some really weird combination of food,

like tasting porridge with garlic in it. So I’m trying to make stuff more homogenous, and I find samplers work really well with that. I don’t know why, I don’t know if it’s just an aesthetic thing,

like the way they look, but when you start changing bit rates and making stuff sound more crusty it tends to also make it sound

more natural and I really strive for that I guess, stuff that sounds a bit damaged and gnarly."

-Chris Clark

clark quotes:

  On 3/9/2010 at 4:35 AM, troon said:

"This thing I’ve been thinking about recently is how to fuse acoustic sounds, like piano and stuff, with really brutal electronics, but without making the electronics have that sort of plasticy sound,

which I think they often can do in a really bad way in my mind, and it doesn’t complement the acoustic sounds. When I hear stuff like that it’s like tasting some really weird combination of food,

like tasting porridge with garlic in it. So I’m trying to make stuff more homogenous, and I find samplers work really well with that. I don’t know why, I don’t know if it’s just an aesthetic thing,

like the way they look, but when you start changing bit rates and making stuff sound more crusty it tends to also make it sound

more natural and I really strive for that I guess, stuff that sounds a bit damaged and gnarly."

 

-Chris Clark

chris clark: mic'd drum kit touched up with a faux-rust sonic exterior

' Too many sheep and not enough shepherds. Let's all sit back and have a long hard think, then make something different! We can all do it, surely?'

-Richard D. James

"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."

Igor Stravinsky

"The concern of the musician is music.

The concern of the professional musician is business.

Never become a professional musician unless you have no other choice."

-Robert Fripp

  On 3/14/2010 at 2:13 AM, Awepittance said:

"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."

Igor Stravinsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU