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Flying Lotus

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 7, 1983

I'm really grateful for all of the things I've had to learn along the way, you know? I don't know if I would want to say anything to my younger self. That way, you know, it really means something. If you have to go through it all, it really means something.

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

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

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Kendrick is a true genius artist.

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The producer role attracts introverts. Making music on your computer is so appealing to someone who just sits in their room all day.

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When it comes to art in general now, we've become so aware of our influence. We know when people are listening, when people are watching. It's not healthy. We start creating with that in the background of our mind. I think it's ruined my mind.

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With every album that I do, I try to feature a new instrument or sound.

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I don't have a great story, but I love Boards of Canada. I didn't get into it when it was happening; I got into it later on.

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I feel like part of my journey as a filmmaker is to tell different stories, whether they are just a black perspective on things that aren't necessarily hood movies, or Tyler Perry movies or Ava DuVernay movies. Love all those people, but that whole thing has been sowed up already.

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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 probably should be, but I'm not.

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I get homesick driving to the grocery store.

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I found so many reasons to call it 'You're Dead!' - not just because I wanted to make this album about the journey through death. I was watching the music scene that I came up with kind of go stale and watching the lights go out on a lot of my friends.

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The Soft Machine's 'Volume Two' inspired me heavily. That record just feels like it was all done in the same breath. It's genius, and it's silly at times. But I love the fact that every time I listen to it, I listen from the beginning and want to play it out.

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I don't sit around listening to beats all day. There's so many producers, and so much of it is derivative.

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I'm just a fan of art and culture.

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I was first inspired to make music by my cousin Oran. He was making music on an old Mac II by himself in his little lab, and I just started taking up after him. He was the first person to put a machine in front of me to work on. He was like my big brother, someone who I looked up to.

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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 so that it's in the best condition it's actually ever been in. That is my baby.

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It's okay to not be working all the time and to be gentle on yourself when you're not. When it feels like you're losing that inspiration - or you're in a rut, not making stuff, and your head gets all weird - be gentle on yourself. Just ease into things naturally. But you still have to ease into it: you still have to sit in the chair.

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I first was introduced to really, I guess, underground electronic music when I was in middle school.

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When I made '1983,' there were a bunch of tracks that were in the early drafts that didn't make it because they just sounded like tracks for rappers, and that's not really the sound I look for when I produce my own albums.

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