Erol Alkan Quotes
One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.
I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.
Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. # RIP6MIX
Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.
I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.
You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.
I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.
I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened.
I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.
I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.
All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.
I don't know what genre I've fallen into, I don't know where it is, and that's really exciting.
Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be.
There was certainly a space I felt for me, don't complain about it not being there, make it.
Everyone is going to prang out at some point. I don't worry about that stuff too much because most things can be sorted out with a chat, a cup of tea and an arm wrestle.
Running a label in 2013, you don't do it for any financial purpose, you do it for all the amazing creative aspects of what you can achieve.
When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.
There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.
Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.
