Flying Lotus

I'm a geek, man.

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I'm a silly guy.

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Sometimes I feel evil!

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My music divides people!

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I work a lot.

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Thundercat put me on to George Duke.

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I'm just a fan of art and culture.

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I've always been a techie kind of person.

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I just like to be dangerous with what I try to do.

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I love 'Pop Team Epic,' which is really trippy.

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I get homesick driving to the grocery store.

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Kendrick is a true genius artist.

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I like boring. Boring is cool.

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When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

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Dilla could flip a boring record and make you feel like you were flying.

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George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

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I love Dilla, and who knows where this beat thing would be without him.

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I wish I could write music notation. Even if I couldn't play it, I wish I could just write it.

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I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

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I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it.

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I am a big cinema nerd! I've absorbed a lot of films.

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I don't like to brag about it, but there are people I've worked with at the start of their career, and they've…

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I like Philip Glass. I think he's made some really great contributions to his field. I love his style of playing -…

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I love my Fender Rhodes. It's been a part of my family since that keyboard came out, and I've had it reworked…

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When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

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Death is a reality, and one day I'm not going to be here anymore, and whatever's next might not be that bad…

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I was 10 years old when the Northridge quake happened, and I lived right in the area, so it was a traumatic…

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I never leave L.A. for too long. I'm not one of those that go on a tour of the whole world. I…

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Reading music has opened up me up so much. I've been experimenting for so long and trying to make sense of things…

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I definitely learned to communicate with other musicians better. I used to feel so intimidated by guys who can read notes, like,…

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It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess…

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The city is always influential in the work, though I've had that temptation to leave, but only recently. It's difficult because whenever…

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I'm not going to be like, "I gotta get this idea out of my head." It's like, "OK, here's a clean slate,…

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When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that…

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I wish more artists would do that sort of thing - just focus on one sound on a record instead of "Here's…

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I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which doesn't feel like L.A. It's a bit different. It's still L.A. County, but…

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I decided to play the saxophone because it was the most obvious instrument in my family. There were a lot of saxophone…

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I played saxophone for a while when I was a kid.

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I've been working with Thundercat forever.

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I'd love to work with Drake. I got Drake beats.

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