When it comes to music, I am a dictator. Making a Dirty Projectors record come to life is like making a movie;… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I do have my more concept-y albums, and then I have the ones that are more about just collections of songs. For… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Dirty Projectors has always been a band that's been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
It's helpful to just hear things through friends' ears, people who know you well. I guess when I started Dirty Projectors, when… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
There's been no two Dirty Projectors records that have had the same cast of characters every time. — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I made, like, five records as Dirty Projectors before I got out of college. And then I put a band together when… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I think, for Solange, it was important to make a super-strong direct statement with 'A Seat at the Table,' and she thought 'Cool Your… — David Longstreth Copy Share
Ninety percent of touring is a logistical maneuver, moving your body and everyone else's from one city to the next. You're like a piece… — David Longstreth Copy Share
I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to… — David Longstreth Copy Share
You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate… — David Longstreth Copy Share
One of the things I really like about West African guitar playing is the way it makes harmony linear. They're really spelling things out… — David Longstreth Copy Share
What genres are good for is being like, 'Here are the parameters. Here's something about the way it's going to make you feel. And… — David Longstreth Copy Share
Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from… — David Longstreth Copy Share
I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating… — David Longstreth Copy Share
Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm hanging out… — David Longstreth Copy Share
At the end of the touring on Bitte, looking back on all that stuff, I feel really proud of having written that music and… — David Longstreth Copy Share
What appeals to me about 'Blind Willie' is just how sparse that music is. Just this idea - the grain of it, the rawness… — David Longstreth Copy Share
The thing that transforms something from being an idea to being a physical reality is work. — David Longstreth Copy Share
The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text… — David Longstreth Copy Share
