I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
There are songs out there in the world which, in some ways, seem so unmusical. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I'll probably continue writing songs about New York until I die. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I'm as guilty as anyone else of listening to music track by track. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing;… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I tend to use different microphones, different mic techniques, and different recording mediums - like analogue tape - that evoke multiple eras… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I always want to be somewhat uncomfortable. But at the same time I want to make music that you react to viscerally. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I made a quote-unquote 'album' for my senior project of high school. As soon as I finished making it I realized it… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I think that for a lot of us gay people, we do feel that pop is our music. We identify with it… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Now that that album's done [TModern Vampires of the City], I have time to revisit things that I was working on earlier,… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I would say I was a little bit outgoing, a little bit shy. I was definitely much more shy than my brother.… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an album where every song is kind of interacting - where you can't tell what's the string arrangement… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I guess I have some kind of a visceral connection with drums. I'm looking to create music that people can react to… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
You want the personality of each performer - whether it's singing or bass or drums or piano - to be intact. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Whatever you are making, whether it's a song, an album, a painting, a film, you're connecting with a tradition, and I do… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine,… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I think that all music is inherently political, and, at the same time, I'm interested in the politics of inclusion not exclusion.… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I think the music that speaks to me the most is music that is personal. And that's the music that I'm trying… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Classical music can be catchy, so can African instrumental guitar music. It's not just pop songs that are catchy. Rhythms can be… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
The most exciting songs to me are the unlikely hits, when you think, 'I love this, but why is it on the… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Even though I've been making electronic music since I was 14, it's hard for people to see you as a producer with… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I feel like there's no one kind of person who comes to my shows. Sometimes I've been surprised by the people who… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I tend to use different microphones, different mic techniques, and different recording mediums - like analogue tape - that evoke multiple eras of recorded… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I think the music that speaks to me the most is music that is personal. And that's the music that I'm trying to make. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I've always been very good at helping other people finish their songs. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
The most exciting songs to me are the unlikely hits, when you think, 'I love this, but why is it on the radio?' — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Even though I've been making electronic music since I was 14, it's hard for people to see you as a producer with a musical… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
It's always my mission to try to do something that hasn't been done before, whether that's musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
There's a line in the Arthur Russell documentary where his partner talks about how Arthur is really interested in process. He never felt like… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
The first Vampire Weekend record was the first full-length album that I produced. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Classical music can be catchy, so can African instrumental guitar music. It's not just pop songs that are catchy. Rhythms can be catchy, too. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Because of who I am, and how open I am, there's something inherently political about just writing love songs. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
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