Song Quotes by Steven Wilson

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

— Steven Wilson

I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.

— Steven Wilson

The truth is I got rid of 100% of my vinyl in the '90s. All the vinyl I have is re-bought.

— Steven Wilson

It's a cliche that music rises above it all, and it's a cliche for a reason - it's very often true.

— Steven Wilson

I think the rock audience still likes to have a physical product. The demand for owning a physical copy is still there.

— Steven Wilson

We had an extreme reaction to Storm Corrosion. We were proud of it, but it divided the audience. The metal fans were…

— Steven Wilson

When I was growing up, I was always looking for the most willfully uncommercial music: Whether it was Captain Beefheart or Frank…

— Steven Wilson

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I…

— Steven Wilson

I always wanted to create my own musical world. That takes time and must be earned, and it does mean sometimes confronting…

— Steven Wilson

Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.

— Steven Wilson

Owning vinyl is like having a beautiful painting hanging in your living room. It's something you can hold, pore over the lyrics,…

— Steven Wilson

That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners…

— Steven Wilson

I grew up at the very tail end of the vinyl era, and at the time, I remember, we couldn't wait for…

— Steven Wilson

If I want to do an orchestral record, if I want to do an acoustic record, if I want to do a…

— Steven Wilson

One thing I have found over years is that if you change direction, the initial reaction tends to be very polarized, but…

— Steven Wilson

I grew up listening to bands like the Cure, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance - these are the bands that…

— Steven Wilson

There was a time when pop music and rock music were really reaching for the stars and were not ashamed to be…

— Steven Wilson

When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy…

— Steven Wilson

The one thing I do believe is, if you make the songs about the human aspects of things, you've got a much…

— Steven Wilson

“The suffering or the bad memories are as important as the good memories, and the good experiences. If you sort of, can…

— Steven Wilson

I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince,…

— Steven Wilson

I think anybody who likes Cardiacs, they tend to be quite evangelistic about them for obvious reasons. They're not a band you…

— Steven Wilson