To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Music has always been so integral to my life. It's always been my work and my passion. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Well, I like the idea of seeing every piece of music as fluid. I see the tracks as places almost, structures you… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I tend to listen to podcasts while running. I don't like to listen to music because my brain would try to get… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Ironically, my tastes aren't that experimental, and I wouldn't describe my music on the surface as being overtly experimental, either. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in incorporating real places into the music I make. Bringing the outside into the controlled world of… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I love exploring the hypnotic elements of music, and because of that there are very long tracks on 'Immunity.' — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
What kind of music keeps its relevance? That's why I purposely try and avoid any particularly current trends in electronic music. I… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Some machine-y music is great, but you can apply any groove to any song now - there's literally a massive drop-down menu… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember hearing was just the dance music that was in the charts when I was growing up. I… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
When I was 23, I felt like I was further back than when I was 21. After two solo albums for this… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
You don't make this kind of music expecting to have to do TV press and stuff like that. I don't mind doing… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I was drawn to music from a super early age. At school, my ego co-opted it to some degree and I would… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
That's the thing with electronic music, you set up systems to bring in an accident, to bring in quirks you didn't choose,… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I was guided into piano lessons and 'guided' is a nice way of saying 'forced.' I don't regret it, but I think… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
It's great to do something that makes your brain just switch to a different mode, and music can do that really powerfully. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don't have a huge amount of gear, but on the software side, I have a number of plug-in chains that act as abstracted… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
My own personality is fairly optimistic and generally very happy, but like everyone else I've been through difficult stuff, particularly in my teenage years,… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
I always make sure there's something for the audience to connect to, in terms of my movements relating to the sounds being heard. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
I've always lived in my head, which is very easy to do when you live and work in a city. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
The track 'Open Eye Signal,' when you hear that choir sound come in, that's actually me singing but sped up and with huge reverb… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
What kind of music keeps its relevance? That's why I purposely try and avoid any particularly current trends in electronic music. I do actively… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
It's extraordinary to hear from people who are bereaved, or gone through a divorce, and they still take the time to tell me how… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
Learning how to be calm and centered in any situation is a skill for life, whatever you do. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
I'm actually a big fan of turning off my phone and ignoring it for large chunks of the day. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
Sometimes I think elements of 'Open Eye Signal' are better live. I do this really crazy stuff at the end, but I don't know… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
Sometimes I hear records that are being recorded at the absolute highest quality, and I just don't like the sound of it. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
When I was 23, I felt like I was further back than when I was 21. After two solo albums for this small indie… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
Whenever I've improved, gone up a level in sound-making, it's been because I've done an album. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share
