Quotes by Alexis Taylor - Page 1

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.
Alexis Taylor / Musician
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Trying
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In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.
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People
Sometimes
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I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.
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Disappointing
Records
Sound
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A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.
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Crowds
Hands
People
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To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.
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Audience
Would Be
Years
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I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.
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Mp3
Nice
Sound
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When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.
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Needs
Records
Thinking
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That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.
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Essentials
Letting Go
Song
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There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.
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Comic
Decision
Humorous
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For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.
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All Time
Audience
Important
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I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.
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Folk Music
Listening
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When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."
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Band
Confusing
People
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If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.
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Melody
Sound
Stills
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When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"
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Band
Crowds
Want
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I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.
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Cds
Ideas
Passing By
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There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.
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Night
Reality
World
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Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.
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Copying
People
Records
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Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.
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Band
Moving
Starting Out
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I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.
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Cds
Facts
Loss
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I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singing about my own inabilities to be as bright as that person.
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Love Life
Song
Writing
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We're still making Hot Chip records whilst doing these other things, so why not just try and make music you enjoy making rather than being tied down by things? It would just be crazy to not allow people to make music.
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Crazy
People
Trying
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It's not like that because the improvisation makes it automatically democratic. No one's leading anything. I didn't have to worry about anyone feeling involved. It was just the most natural, easy process of making music.
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Easy
Feelings
Worry
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I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.
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Cds
Ipods
People
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It's an example of when three people think something's brilliant and one thinks it's terrible. I suppose that's what improvising can be like because you just don't really know how anyone's feeling about it. You come off stage like, "Was that good?"
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Feelings
People
Thinking
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I've always found it interesting when I'm the person in the audience feeling mismatched by what I've seen or heard. The shows I've taken the most from I may have not liked while I was there listening to it but, maybe an hour later, there's suddenly a lightening bolt out of the blue: "Oh, I'd see them again."
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Feelings
Interesting
Taken
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It's funny, I played a social gig once - we were playing music that was rhythm based, but it was going in some strange places. Some people came up to me afterward and said, "Can you play a tune that we'll all recognize?" I've carried that with me forever - why would you want a tune you could recognize? What's the point of that?
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Forever
People
Strange
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I really enjoy playing for hours and hours. DJ sets where you turn up over an hour and you're on a festival stage, people basically expect much more pounding than I ever would play. I just feel like a fish out of water when I do those. They want something really kind of aggressive; that's not really the kind of music that I'm into.
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Kind
People
Water
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When I first started doing stuff outside of Hot Chip, I got the impression that Joe Goddard was a bit concerned. But I said, "I really want to record these songs quickly and not turn them into dance music." And he was fairly supportive - maybe not wholly supportive. But then you learn that no one's about to quit the band, so it seems good and healthy.
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Healthy
Song
Supportive
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I think being a DJ is that thing of learning what makes a crowd move. As a DJ, you're constantly learning. It's like chess or something. After a couple of years, you think you're good, then you see a real DJ that's been doing it for 20 years and they just blow you away. I think that's one of the things I like about DJing: you can get better and better and better.
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Couple
Moving
Real
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I'm quite interested in what words can be, if it's very few words, and it's a kind of club track but it has a sort of uplifting or spiritual kind of feeling to it. Somehow, something bigger than just the words on the page happens when you hear it all together. Sometimes I notice when I'm DJing, I put on a lot of tracks that feature vocals. I guess for me, it's just from growing up loving songs, so maybe I'm geared slightly more towards dance music that features a song element.
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Uplifting
Growing Up
Song
Spiritual
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