Kieran Hebden Quotes

• People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.

  Kieran Hebden

  Believe, Exercise, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You can do something really exciting and you don't need any record companies. The way I do everything comes from that, the impact of those two things.

  Kieran Hebden

  Two, Impact, Play

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• When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.

  Kieran Hebden

  Two, Bass, Steps

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• I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the live music I was making was really hectic and turning much more confrontational. So when I started working on Everything Ecstatic, that was very normal for me. I think it was a departure, but people read it as an escape from something, whereas every record I do is, I feel, a departure.

  Kieran Hebden

  Thinking, People, Jazz

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• I thought Everything Ecstatic was the happiest of them all - hence the "ecstatic" name. The whole concept behind that was total out-and-out euphoric mania. I think tracks like "Smile Around The Face" are the jolliest things I've ever done, really. But one of the things I like about my music is the fact that it's instrumental, so there are no lyrics to guide people.

  Kieran Hebden

  Thinking, People, Track

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• When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.

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  Black And White, Firsts, Tortoises

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• So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

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  School, People, Musician

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• My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

  Kieran Hebden

  Father, Rocks, Soul

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• If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it.

  Kieran Hebden

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• I think the most important thing for me is putting out records that document ideas.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Important

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• I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.

  Kieran Hebden

  People, I Realized

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• Gospel isn't some ditty to make people enjoy their afternoon - it's communicating with God.

  Kieran Hebden

  People, Enjoy, Communicate

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• I find the more I DJ, the more ideas I have and the more music I want to make.

  Kieran Hebden

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I find that people in American are often much more purist. If you're into hip-hop, you're totally into hip-hop - you wear the uniform, that's all you listen to. If you're a goth, you're totally a goth - you've got, like, 4,000 piercings, black hair, you really go for it.

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  People, Black, Goth

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• I feel like there's a young generation of producers who are taking inspiration from dubstep but trying to push it in other directions.

  Kieran Hebden

  Inspiration, Young Generation, Trying

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• The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.

  Kieran Hebden

  Teenager, Band, Bikinis

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• People ask me about all sorts of sounds. There's a sound of a screeching toy or a rubber duck and everybody asks me about that, but it was an absolutely random thing, just a cool sound.

  Kieran Hebden

  Ducks, People, Sound

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• I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music.

  Kieran Hebden

  Personal Touch

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• With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

  Kieran Hebden

  Process, Miles, Stage

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• I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

  Kieran Hebden

  Journey, Thinking, Musical

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• After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

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  Feelings, Trying, Albums

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• It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good album that felt like it had a point.

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  Trying, Albums, Clubs

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• I worked on the tracks so they sounded as good as possible in there... I wanted to make something that was for the night.

  Kieran Hebden

  Night, Track, Wanted

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