Music Quotes by Bonobo

I'm just a music fan.

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A lot of music is like a diary for me.

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I was a musician first, the whole DJ-ing came after.

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For me, I really like listening to music really loud.

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I think I've always had this thing where it's music first.

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I think nostalgia is kind of dangerous in music.

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There's this kind of dialogue between African music and dance music, especially Moroccan stuff, because it's kind of ceremonial and has built-in…

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If there was just music without any genres, then people would look at a lot of things afresh, and approach a record…

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The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.

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I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation…

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I listen to records I made years ago and it takes me back to that time, so why not actually put a…

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Life has highs, lows, loud and quiet moments, beautiful ones and ugly ones. Music is a reflection of life.

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I make music that I consider to be very personal. I think the main aspect is to make it as human as…

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My taste is developing constantly, and it goes in whatever direction it wants to go in - the music follows.

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The process of making music is very therapeutic; it's late at night and I'm wearing headphones a lot of the time, so…

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In the very beginning, I kind of had this hip-hop, cut-and-paste approach to music. The first record, especially, was from looking at…

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I didn't really think my music was good enough to be heard by anyone. I had some friends who were releasing records…

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Albums are just a punctuation of music. I don't usually start out with a manifesto. Your tastes change with the process of…

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I've never been one of those musicians to differentiate between acoustic and electronic sounds. I just see it all as sound sources…

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I really enjoy DJing but I couldn't DJ exclusively. I couldn't produce exclusively either, that would involve spending a lot of time…

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My parents and two sisters were great musicians but my family's approach to music was always way more academic than mine. They…

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My records are not informed by whether the music is going to work live. I just kind of make the music I…

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You can't live in the times that you live in and be exposed to all the new music that's happening, ignore it…

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I never used to be able to work on the road, I was always strictly in the studio. But not everything's gotten…

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Yeah, it's a kind of weird thing because I don't define myself as an electronic musician. It's certainly a part of it,…

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Some people like music to be far more immediate and make you dance straight away. But I like to engage with it…

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I often find there's an equal benefit to being in a comfortable, well rested studio session, but also the more pressured headspace…

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The ability to have that mobility of music right now, where you can be in an airport with a sample library, it…

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I don't make personality-driven music. Personality stagnates, people become tired of it. When it is purely about the music, that is what…

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