Flume Quotes

#1. It sure is a pleasure not having Flume around in the mess hall any more. No more of that 'Pass the salt, Walt.'"
"Or 'Pass the bread, Fred.'"
"Or 'Shoot me a beet, Pete.

Joseph Heller

#2. I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

Gabrielle Aplin

#3. I choose me bristles with pride
Yes, I do
A broom for the shaft
And a broom for the flume
Though I'm covered with soot
From me 'ead to me toes
A sweep knows 'e's welcome
Wherever 'e goes

Richard M. Sherman

#4. [We] are, in fact, so close to the amusement park that [our] toilet is referred to as "the log flume.

Dan Adams

#5. Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume.

Lesley Howarth

#6. It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

Flume

#7. Making every record is a process full of tough times.

Ezra Koenig

#8. He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Once you make something you think it's awesome, but it's only after you listen to it for a few weeks then you actually get a proper perspective on it.

Flume

#10. I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.

Flume

#11. One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Virginia Woolf

#12. When it's your own thing there's a lot more pressure to make it awesome, since these people bought tickets specifically for you. Whereas at the festivals, you're one of many acts on a bill so I find it's less pressure.

Flume

#13. Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

Flume

#14. Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.

Flume

#15. Australian weather's amazing! You notice that when you go overseas.

Flume

#16. I like your own shows because you can have a bit more fun and extend your set, you can go a bit over if you want because it's your show. Whereas at festivals it's very strict, like if you go like two minutes over they get ready to pull the plug kind-of-thing. They're both good and bad.

Flume

#17. Look beyond what you can see, Think Potential

Samer Chidiac

#18. Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

Nicholas Sparks

#19. Sometimes you can just tell there's something unique about it, but you can never really truly tell until you show it to a third party - you show it to you friends, or you show it to people you know that know about music like my label or those kinda people.

Flume

#20. I feel like New Zealand's a bit of an unchartered territory for me in a way.

Flume

#21. I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

Flume

#22. What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out.

Flume

#23. I want to write a score for a film. It can be a proper film, maybe for a film kind of like ... I saw that movie 'Drive', or a bit of a 'Blade Runner' vibe. A little bit sci-fi, but I don't know. I've just always wanted to write a score for a film.

Flume

#24. If Affection is made the absolute sovereign of a human life the seeds will germinate. Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

C.S. Lewis