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…

— 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…

— 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…

— David Longstreth

You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business…

— 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…

— 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…

— David Longstreth

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we…

— David Longstreth

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather…

— 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…

— 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…

— David Longstreth

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

— David Longstreth

What appeals to me about 'Blind Willie' is just how sparse that music is. Just this idea - the grain of it,…

— David Longstreth

The thing that transforms something from being an idea to being a physical reality is work.

— David Longstreth

The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a…

— David Longstreth

When I would go over to friends' houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the…

— David Longstreth

I remember when that Kelis song 'Milkshake' came out, and just how extreme it seemed in terms of that really high triangle…

— David Longstreth

I've always loved cuneiform; I've always loved the way it looks. I love that it's the world's oldest script. And the creative…

— David Longstreth

You can have outlandish ideas, but if you don't work at them, they just remain outlandish ideas. Anyone can have an idea.…

— David Longstreth

Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as…

— David Longstreth

I'm from the East Coast; I think about things dialectically sometimes - in other words, antagonistically. The rhythms that I think of…

— David Longstreth

A lot of my vocals were the first time I ever sang the song.

— David Longstreth

I love 808s - not only the Auto-Tune but just ,in general, the embrace of a kind of digital style of working.

— David Longstreth

A lot of the music I was inspired by growing up - college rock, DIY, what they used to call indie rock…

— David Longstreth

When it comes to music, I am a dictator. Making a Dirty Projectors record come to life is like making a movie;…

— David Longstreth