In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is repetitive, they can come and go as they please. That's how we approach it. Not verse-chorus-verse. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
It's weird, in New York, it's like the big theme of everything is folk music and interacting with people. Maryland is where the landscape… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling." — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is repetitive, they… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
