When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?" — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times. — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything. — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute. — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format. — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
We're still making Hot Chip records whilst doing these other things, so why not just try and make music you enjoy making rather than… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
It's an example of when three people think something's brilliant and one thinks it's terrible. I suppose that's what improvising can be like because… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
It's funny, I played a social gig once - we were playing music that was rhythm based, but it was going in some strange… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
I think being a DJ is that thing of learning what makes a crowd move. As a DJ, you're constantly learning. It's like chess… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental. — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
