Quotes About Music

I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.

The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.

There's really an art form to putting together a set list that flows evenly and that takes you on a ride and doesn't feel disjointed.

I can clearly hear a lot of grime influence on Timbaland's stuff, on some of Drake's flows.

After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can listen to again and again.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.

Some people say 'flutist.' Others say 'flautist.' I just say 'flute player.' That's what I was.

I fly to London or the U.S. to record my music nearly once a month.

I grew up in the area where we had Three 6 Mafia, and Playa Fly, and 8Ball & MJG. My parents and my family used to listen to it. I learned from them there, and got more into it - listening to the beat of songs, and just learning more about music.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

When you throw your hands up in the air like you just don't care, you're doing 'The Fly' by Chubby Checker!

I don't read or write music in the traditional sense, so I have to figure it out on the fly while I'm in the studio.

I wouldn't have been in the mind-set to do another 'Fly.'

We've never adopted Americanisms. We are a very British band from a very British cultural scene. We fly that flag and that is something I enjoy.

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

Dilla could flip a boring record and make you feel like you were flying.

I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.

I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.

I did a short film with Donald Glover for one of his Childish Gambino projects, and Flying Lotus was an actor in it.

With the Germs, every night's a little mini-riot, bottles flying at my head.

I just want to focus on creating more music.