Quotes from Erol Alkan

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

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.

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.

You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

Obviously like many of us, I love music, and I hate music sometimes.

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.

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.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.