Justin Broadrick

There's always gonna be people saying they were so much better back in the day.

— Justin Broadrick

I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is…

— Justin Broadrick

I always felt at odds, politically, with people, and with any group of people that congregate and declare themselves as some sort…

— Justin Broadrick

I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records…

— Justin Broadrick

Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been…

— Justin Broadrick

Inspiration has to be natural for me, not so considered, I am not saying that is right or wrong, it's simply what…

— Justin Broadrick

What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it…

— Justin Broadrick

What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You…

— Justin Broadrick

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me…

— Justin Broadrick

Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.

— Justin Broadrick

Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation…

— Justin Broadrick

I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need…

— Justin Broadrick

Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the…

— Justin Broadrick

I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played…

— Justin Broadrick

Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.

— Justin Broadrick

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and…

— Justin Broadrick

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of…

— Justin Broadrick

I'd always loved hip-hop.

— Justin Broadrick

I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to…

— Justin Broadrick

I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes…

— Justin Broadrick

As a label I don't care about piracy. I want the music that we [my band] love to be heard by as…

— Justin Broadrick

I feel somewhat privileged because I often feel very sorry for kids. I often feel very sorry for 20-year-olds and teens who…

— Justin Broadrick

I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but…

— Justin Broadrick