Jamie Lidell Quotes

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• I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

  Jamie Lidell

  Song, Writing, Creativity

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

  Jamie Lidell

  Sound, Hard

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-in.

  Jamie Lidell

  Crazy, Opportunity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it off, roll with it. For me, I just find it disgusting.

  Jamie Lidell

  Beach, Water, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

  Jamie Lidell

  People, Understanding, Identity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You have to sit with the songs until they start to live. Or do things straight-up spontaneously. I set up a beat just like I do in the live show, add the lyrics that I wrote in thirty minutes - I already had a topic in mind because I had this crazy experience with this girl who was trying to get close to me and it freaked me out because she was really close to another friend of mine, and I thought, "This is a story, I'm gonna make this into a song."

  Jamie Lidell

  Girl, Song, Crazy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to ride it when it's good. Surf's up! It's like that.

  Jamie Lidell

  Creative, Kind, Creative Process

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff. I don't believe the hype; I think a great record is because I put a lot of love into it. If people are feeling it, that's fantastic.

  Jamie Lidell

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it in myself but from an outsider's point of view, I can see they must be thinking, "Who the hell does this guy think he is?" But recently I've been thinking, okay, a white guy can't sing soul, but would a black person be made exempt from singing opera because it's not a tradition that belongs to them? It's the same kind of argument.

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  Thinking, Guy, Understanding

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

  Jamie Lidell

  Thinking, Soul, Mystery

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If a shop has a lot of sections I'll end up putting my record above the James Blunt CDs since he ripped off my bloody artwork and he's selling millions of records! I try to get people to buy mine accidentally.

  Jamie Lidell

  People, Trying, Blunt

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

  Jamie Lidell

  Philosophy, Creating, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

  Jamie Lidell

  Character, Rocks, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

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  Reach Out, Direct, Bubbles

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's a sense that, on a certain day, you want to destroy everything, even the ones you love. Humans are weird like that. You build an empire and you hate it as soon as it's done. That's because we're never satisfied.

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  Hate, Empires, Done

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

  Jamie Lidell

  Pills, Going Out, Chords

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries emotionally and musically. I took a break and I learnt software and programming a little bit, and that's how I designed my live machine, which I've been using for years.

  Jamie Lidell

  Years, Space, Batteries

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once I established it as my unique tool, it was like, now I'm going to master it like a guitar.

  Jamie Lidell

  Unique, Guitar, Tools

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

  Jamie Lidell

  Guy, Likes, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wanted to make an album that I wanted to put on myself and could listen to again and again. In the past I've done these records that are very in-depth. I love them and I'm very proud of them but I've always found it hard to listen to them again and again...they're very demanding.

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  Past, Depth, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's very much a domino effect when I'm playing. In fact, that's a good way of putting it. I'm trying to topple all the dominos in a single stroke. That would be a show with perfect momentum. Every now and again, you get one of those dominos that moves to the side a little bit, traps things and you have to stand them all up again and see if people will go with you. They'll let you off a few times but if you make too many mistakes they'll get a bit anxious.

  Jamie Lidell

  Mistake, Moving, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's a difference between writing, the written word, and music. When you have the blank page it doesn't make a sound, which is like what happens to me every night when I'm playing. There is that crazy moment: the first mark you make on the page. But sound can inspire sound, in a way that words can't inspire words - at least for me. The nature of sound itself is still a huge mystery to me. I'm very happy about that.

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  Crazy, Writing, Night

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The most important thing for me - and the thing I get frustrated about when I don't achieve it - is momentum. Sometimes you hit on it quite naturally and other times it's a mad struggle.

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  Struggle, Mad, Frustrated

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The layering of sound is by no means a two-dimensional process. Even though I've been doing it for a number of years, the diversity of it is so intriguing. It's a bit like traveling across the water. Though you may have done it time and time again it always hits you in a different way.

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  Mean, Water, Diversity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I just throw myself into a mad frenzy, whip up a storm and see what comes through.

  Jamie Lidell

  Mad, Storm

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