"Sometimes it's a little limiting to just work with your own voice."
"Music in school shouldn’t be optional. It’s a part of our being."
"I’m always disappointed when a record isn’t just two side-long instrumental pieces."
"Live, people can really surrender to the music."
Dexter+Franz about a reel to reel tape deck with a monumental impact on workflow.
"When someone feels something and they can convey it authentically - I’m so with them."
“As a woman in a male-dominated musical genre, I have been isolated and patronised from a young age.“
"I call it the buzz: Frequencies that touch us, remind us of home, or a lover, the ocean, a feeling of bliss."
“We try to keep that little light of mutiny burning.“
“DJing used to be very mechanical. So I decided to do the opposite: to give my audience everything.“
“Creativity has a lot to do with dedication and the will to work. Even if that sounds very disenchanting.“
“I find something magical in not knowing too much.”
“An evening of YouTube can really push forward something buried within you.“
“I actually think I am rescuing a song from death. I am tasked with its life.“
"Everyone’s personal history and ideas about what it means to be part of the diaspora are and should be very different."
“I love the initial burst when you get an idea. That's the best time to record it.“
"Singing is the most primal, fundamental, soul-expressive thing a human can do."
“Not taking a stand against what’s happening in the world is convenient.“
"I think we should teach self sufficiency in schools. Not how to sell yourself on Tik Tok."
"There is no ‘fix’ or ‘update’ for the legacies in these technologies."
"If I’m not focused and putting my whole body into it, it doesn’t come out right."
“I can’t stand going through manuals to learn about how things work. I just start twisting knobs.”
"I once picked up Kraftwerk with my car and tooted the horn twice - a cover version of the introduction to 'Autobahn'. Nobody noticed."
“My first serious song was about my guinea pig that I had to give away. That was a very sad time for me.“
"Bands like Radiohead or Phoenix seem to have a good internal balance of friendship, ideas, hard work and method. We like that."
“I see the end result, draw a path in my mind and start walking towards it.“
"If we'd shift our focus from sight to listening, our world would undergo profound transformations."
"A main challenge of the future is how to give more space to the sound of nature."
"My singing has improved since I started learning to tap my feet while singing."
"We’ve never had a drummer. Maybe that's why I put emphasis on percussive phrasing."
"There is something cathartic about beating the hell out of something."
"We think we’re controlling the process. But the result confirms that we’re really not."
"There are still so many great songs out there. I want to go grab one of them before someone else takes it."
"Being in the creative flow is the most tangible experience of what we don’t understand."
"I totally have misophonia. But no worries, I’ve found a support group online."
"Mixing up a negative world view with “realism“ can result in the reversal of progress."
"You can't replicate human creativity that easily with artificial means."
"The myth of “individual genius” disappears in music improvised in collectivity."
"Groove, Swing and rhythmic feel? To me they’re just concepts. Made up belief systems."