Justin Broadrick Quotes

#1. I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves.

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#2. I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

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#3. I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.

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#4. What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.

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#5. When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

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#6. I always felt at odds, politically, with people, and with any group of people that congregate and declare themselves as some sort of movement. It's usually motivated by wishing to dominate other people.

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#7. Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.

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#8. I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"

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#9. Inspiration has to be natural for me, not so considered, I am not saying that is right or wrong, it's simply what works for me.

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#10. I'd always loved hip-hop.

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#11. I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline.

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#12. Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.

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#13. I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating.

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#14. I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

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#15. I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

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#16. What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.

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#17. Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on "Christbait Rising" which Broadrick was quoted as saying, "It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim".

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#18. There's always gonna be people saying they were so much better back in the day.

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#19. I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do feel Godflesh is a protest music of sorts. That was the background that I came from.

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#20. Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.

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