Squarepusher Quotes

I’ve started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

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.

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

I'm basically a musician.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.

One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get involved with it.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

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.

I’m not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That’s nothing to do with me.

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

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.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

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.

I'll alight upon words because I think they suggest any number of things.

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.