Squarepusher Quotes

#1. I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit.

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#2. Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

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#3. People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that, and enjoy proving these people wrong. This project is an excellent way of exploring that area more.

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#4. I've started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.

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#5. I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

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#6. If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.

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#7. One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get involved with it.

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#8. One of the more dispiriting things I think about endless touring is hearing the same piece of music over and over again and I end up feeling like a fraud.

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#9. Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

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#10. One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.

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#11. I'll alight upon words because I think they suggest any number of things.

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