Latest Alexis Taylor Quotes from Interviews

• 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."

  Alexis Taylor

  Taken, Interesting, Feelings

• 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?

  Alexis Taylor

  People, Forever, Strange

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Important, All Time, Audience

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Worry, Feelings, Easy

• In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.

  Alexis Taylor

  People, Sometimes

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Crazy, People, Trying

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Listening, Folk Music

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Song, Healthy, Supportive

• 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?"

  Alexis Taylor

  Thinking, People, Feelings

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Couple, Real, Moving

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  People, Water, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Song

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

  Alexis Taylor

  Sound, Records, Disappointing

  Source: pitchfork.com

• That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.

  Alexis Taylor

  Letting Go, Song, Essentials

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  People, Copying, Records

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Sound, Melody, Stills

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

• When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

  Alexis Taylor

  Thinking, Needs, Records

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

• To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

  Alexis Taylor

  Years, Would Be, Audience

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Night, Reality, World

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Loss, Cds, Facts

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Passing By, Cds, Ideas

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

• I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.

  Alexis Taylor

  Nice, Mp3, Sound

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

• 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.

  Alexis Taylor

  Cds, Ipods, People

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

• You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

  Alexis Taylor

  Giving, Trying, Reason

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

• A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.

  Alexis Taylor

  Hands, People, Crowds

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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