Sitek Quotes

#1. I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

Dave Sitek

#2. I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!

Dave Sitek

#3. I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#4. Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.

Dave Sitek

#5. I think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years.

Dave Sitek

#6. Because if feels so much like falling
Into love
Into you and me
Being in love is scary
So much like falling
A frightening descent into
Beautiful madness
Yes, you and we
We're
Falling into Us
And I don't dare stop the fall
Because I need it far too much

Jasinda Wilder

#7. Somewhere along the line, music became 'content' ... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.

Dave Sitek

#8. Unique is not the same as alone.

G. Willow Wilson

#9. I'm a real genre jumper, but all good music belongs to the same family. I love Dave Sitek, a producer I've been working with a lot since I moved to L.A. He will change the game.

Erik Hassle

#10. I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!

Dave Sitek

#11. Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.

Dave Sitek

#12. I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.

Dave Sitek

#13. I would know your scent anywhere. Even in the darkest night in the darkest room with a hundred other people." His voice dropped to a husky whisper. "Yes, Camille. I would know it. Always, I would know ... you.

Liz Carlyle

#14. I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

Mark Haddon

#15. I'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don't care about gear in general. I care about people and their intentions to make music - it doesn't matter what equipment you have.

Dave Sitek

#16. I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

Dave Sitek

#17. My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

Dave Sitek

#18. Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

Jo Nesbo

#19. I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.

Dave Sitek

#20. I'm a behind-the-scenes guy. I've got a face for radio.

Dave Sitek

#21. I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside.

Dave Sitek

#22. If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.

Dave Sitek

#23. Whereas Angeline's antics made me want to pull out my hair sometimes, Trey found them endearing.

Richelle Mead

#24. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach ... love is close by ... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation ... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

Dave Sitek

#25. Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations.

H.P. Lovecraft

#26. I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

Dave Sitek

#27. If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.

Dave Sitek

#28. I respect the Premier League.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic