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• I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

  Aphex Twin

  School, Hair, Feelings

  "Eponymous Rex". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. April 15, 1997.

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• The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.

  Aphex Twin

  Thinking, Holy Grail, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

  Aphex Twin

  Track, Erratic, Switching

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

  Aphex Twin

  Thinking, People, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's only interesting when you're from somewhere else, like America or Japan. The further away the more interesting it is.

  Aphex Twin

  Japan, Somewhere Else, America

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

  Aphex Twin

  Clever, Emotional, Should Have

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

  Aphex Twin

  Years, Track, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."

  Aphex Twin

  Brain, Accepting, Chords

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.

  Aphex Twin

  Years, Track, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

  Aphex Twin

  Hackers, Sensible, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

  Aphex Twin

  Names, Stuff, Used

  "Eponymous Rex". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. April 15, 1997.

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• You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.

  Aphex Twin

  Cheer, People, Track

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.

  Aphex Twin

  Air, Interesting, Hitting

  "A Conversation With Aphex Twin". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.

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• Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

  Aphex Twin

  Long, Brain, Lines

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

  Aphex Twin

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.

  Aphex Twin

  Successful, America, Underdog

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• That's just globalization. It's got good sides as well. But scenes aren't allowed to develop on their own anymore. Everyone knows about everything.

  Aphex Twin

  Sides, Scene, Globalization

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm trying to work out more ways to involve my children, because the way I do stuff is so anti-kid, it's really boring. It's not fun. It is to me, but not to them, because they don't even know what I'm doing.

  Aphex Twin

  Children, Fun, Kids

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?"

  Aphex Twin

  Thinking, Guy, This Guy

  "A Conversation With Aphex Twin". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.

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