Fennesz Quotes

#1. In terms of the organic feel and the love for noises, I definitely feel more connected to Four Tet and Fennesz, as any dance floor artist. I do like some dancey stuff like Martyn when I DJ, but I draw my inspiration from other things.

Apparat

#2. I don't release many records just as "Fennesz," so when I do, I want to plan everything in detail. It's not that I want to really lead the listener somewhere; it's more about me being satisfied with a project.

Christian Fennesz

#3. We play very dangerous games with life and no one knows our rules.

Parke Godwin

#4. The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Kate Forsyth

#5. For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find it beautiful.

Christian Fennesz

#6. Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

George Orwell

#7. I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.

Christian Fennesz

#8. Knowing that all things happen in perfect order does not vaccinate us against pain and suffering. It simply makes us fully responsible for it.

Noah James Hittner

#9. I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been - if the invention of language, the formation of words, the analysis of ideas had not intervened - the means of communication between souls.

Marcel Proust

#10. I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.

Christian Fennesz

#11. there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

#12. Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?

Cormac McCarthy

#13. I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

Lauren DeStefano

#14. For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.

Christian Fennesz

#15. I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.

Tim Tebow

#16. No more "band psycho" stuff for me. I'm fine without it.

Christian Fennesz

#17. I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and productions.

Christian Fennesz

#18. He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.

Max Lucado

#19. I hate the idea of repeating myself. I need new perspectives and challenges for each project, and I'm very happy that many people are able to follow me without any problem.

Christian Fennesz

#20. I was really a big fan of Loveless. At [the time it came out], I made music that was not too far away from [what they were doing], but we were stuck in Austria. There was no way to get attention from the outside world. Maybe it's a generational thing.

Christian Fennesz

#21. Mine.
The word was a declaration. It rocked him to his very foundation. It was a truth he'd kept hidden for far too long. Caleb didn't know anything about love, or loving anyone, but he knew ... Livvie was his.

C.J. Roberts

#22. In my case, I am improvising with existing sound files. I use an MSP patch that a friend of mine made, and you have to improvise when you use this patch. I don't use a guitar in performance anymore.

Christian Fennesz

#23. Nobody but the residents would call this sector the Hub Worlds, unless they thought the rest of the wheel had fallen off.

Elizabeth Moon

#24. Well shit! If she's dead, how can I have a bitch smackdown with her?

Kristen Ashley

#25. I'm an outsider by choice, she said, but I'm hoping that won't be my choice forever.

Brian Andreas

#26. I studied ethnomusicology for a while, but I don't think that really influenced my music.

Christian Fennesz

#27. It's true that laptop performances can be boring for the audience. The problem is, the organizers of events are still putting us on the classic "rock stage," instead of trying to find new ways to present the music.

Christian Fennesz