Squarepusher Quotes
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One of the more dispiriting things I think about endless touring is hearing the same piece of music over and over again and I end up feeling like a fraud.
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I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.
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I’m not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That’s nothing to do with me.
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I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit.
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Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.
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I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.
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I've never been about trying to promote a brand of Squarepusher. I've never been keen on that idea that these are the character traits that I've got to stick with and amplify and keep pushing forward and pushing on the public. I'm really happy to throw it all away and start each record with a blank slate but I concede you've got a point, there are things I can't get rid of, no matter how hard I try.
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My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.
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I don't know how many records I'm selling.
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The main thing I’m into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I’m really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.
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What happens in the studio is technically the same thing that happens on the stage. In the past I had to make quite brutal adaptations of the material to make it work on stage. I don't always like doing that because sometimes you're shaving away the things that you actually quite like about them, the spontaneity of it.
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Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
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But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.
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I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.
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If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.
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I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.
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People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that, and enjoy proving these people wrong. This project is an excellent way of exploring that area more.
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My plan is if you come to the shows in the first run of dates the versions you'll hear live are quite close to the record. But because I can set this up identically afterwards in a hotel room I can actually work when I'm on the move. The aim is that all the pieces will have had substantial remixes and different parts added and subtracted.
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I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.
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I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.
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I'm trying to fly the flag for the days of electronic music where people who are making it are also building the gear because that was what was happening in the very early days of electronic music. And that spirit is one of the things that really appeals to me about electronic music so I'm putting this forward as a way to keep that.
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I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.
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I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.
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I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.
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I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.
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I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.
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It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.
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I'm basically a musician.
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
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I'll alight upon words because I think they suggest any number of things.
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