Quotes by Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I’m definitely one of those.

Composer

Missions

World

Because I’ve been making music and releasing it for so long, I’ve got that production-line thing in my brain: I can’t do anything new until the last one’s out.

Brain

Lines

Long

Can’t really despise people you don’t know.

Despise

Knows

People

Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it’s just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That’s what’s everyone’s essentially after.

Brain

Forget

The End Of The Day

I actually prefer it if I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. If you’ve got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you’re going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don’t know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You’re working out a new language, basically. New rules.

Piano

Play

Work Out

I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, ’cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

Feelings

Hair

School

I’d like to have a dog with me.

Dog

I’ve got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I’m dizzy, and it’s something to do with that.

Balance

Dizzy

Problem

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you’ve made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.

Sound

Track

Years

If you’re making things at home, there is no structure – no end, no beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, “OK, that’s the end of that period.”

Giving

Home

Nice

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Air

America

Arrogant

Artist

Balance

Brain

Cheer

Composer

Deals

Despise

Dizzy

Dog

Done

Equipment

Fans

Favourite

Feelings

Forget

Giving

Globalization

Hair

Hitting

Holy Grail

Home

Interesting

Keyboards

Knows

Lines

Long

Missions

Nice

Order

People

Piano

Play

Priorities

Problem

Scene

School

Sides

Sound

Sticks

Successful

The End Of The Day

Thinking

Track

Underdog

Work Out

World

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Quotes by Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I’m definitely one of those.

Because I’ve been making music and releasing it for so long, I’ve got that production-line thing in my brain: I can’t do anything new until the last one’s out.

Can’t really despise people you don’t know.

Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it’s just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That’s what’s everyone’s essentially after.

I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, ’cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

I’d like to have a dog with me.

I’ve got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I’m dizzy, and it’s something to do with that.

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you’ve made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.

If you’re making things at home, there is no structure – no end, no beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, “OK, that’s the end of that period.”

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