Quotes by Gotye - Page 1

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number.
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
Numbers
Records
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Music makes me want to dance but I'm not sure that's something anybody wants to observe.
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
Not Sure
Want
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You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, Like resignation to the end, Always the end.
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Ends
Kind
Sadness
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I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.
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Mind
Music Is
World
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Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that.
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Concerts
Eye
Music Is
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I'm open to whatever. I think sometimes when people collaborate these days, it's a little bit convenient.
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Littles
People
Thinking
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All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.
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Dad
Artwork
Records
Painted
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Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.
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Journey
Bunch
Giving
Greater
Song
Arc
Gives
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Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
Depth
Never Quit
Vulnerable
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I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.
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Country
Different Countries
Lines
People
Song
Me People Song
Respond
Me Song People
Send
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When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.
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Rocks
Stones
Voice
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What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.
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Ego
Feelings
Letting Go
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I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
Adventurous
Albums
Exciting
Trying
Want
Edge
How Far
Push
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I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.
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Directors
Lucky
Song
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Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
Music
Becoming
Chorus
Fit
Hook
Moved
Sections
Thinking
Sure
Quite
Around
Dropped
Gets
Originally
Puzzle
Shifted
Tune
Verse
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I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
Hands
Subconscious
Surrealism
Unknown Worlds
Way
Unknown
World Your Me
Easily
Draw
Formed
World Me Your
Guess
Some Things
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'Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles.
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
Constant
Female
Months
November
Six
Struggle
Vocalist
Fairly
Finish
Hurdles
Quickly
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I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
Cool
Desire
Disappear
Instruments
Months
Process
Two
Years
Away
Weeks
Collected
Condense
Down
Explore
Hole
Record
Rabbit
Took
While
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This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'
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Close Relationship
Mirrors
Element
Lyric
Sounds
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A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
History
Aspect
Brain
Collecting
Combining
Discovering
Discovery
May
Sampling
Surprise
Thinking
Love Music Always
Because
Love History Music
Why
Big Part
Part
Existed
Involves
Just Kind
Making
Parts
Recording
Searching
Unlock
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I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings McDonald's.
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
Girl
Home
Coffee
Crash
Driving
Remember
Shooting
Way Home
Sure
All Day
Face
Quite
Bat
Clearly
Working
Guess
Mcdonald
Ordered
Regular
She
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I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings [Australia] McDonald's.
Gotye / Multi-Instrumentalist
Girl
Home
Coffee
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