Flying Lotus Quotes

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Flying Lotus

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 7, 1983

I was a real big fan of Lil Wayne when he first came out.

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If I work with Bjork, then I'll be a happy soul, man.

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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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'Cosmogramma' is basically the studies that map out the universe and the relations of heaven and hell.

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I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums.

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I believe there's more than this - that maybe, when we die, our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife.

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All of the Flying Lotus records are exploring similar themes: These questions in my mind about what's next and what's beyond.

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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 just from my ears. It takes forever. Now I can get where I want much quicker.

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

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We're all trying so hard to be beautiful, but the people in 'Kuso' are trying so hard to be disgusting.

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I do think your environment really plays into how you create. I lived in San Francisco for a bit, and I felt like I lived in the Matrix - so my music had that paranoid-of-the-outside sound to it.

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If I see a cop, it's not like, 'Oh, there's a cop who's gonna keep me safe.' It's more, 'There's a cop who might be having a bad day, so don't make eye contact.'

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Sometimes I feel evil!

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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 all become very, very successful.

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George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

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Before I started Brainfeeder, there were rumblings in our own circle about creating a label for us all. Then I started to see all these other ones from Europe try to capitalise on the scene. It didn't make sense to me that there were all these people who were trying to build on something that was in our backyard.

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There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.

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People don't really care to be around you when you're going through tough times.

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I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.

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The Internet makes it possible for everyone to collaborate.

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