Scope Quotes by David Longstreth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Making a movie really frees up the way you think.

— David Longstreth

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

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

— David Longstreth