Flying Lotus Quotes

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Flying Lotus

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 7, 1983

A strong concept is the most important thing in creating a record. When you can listen to it and see a whole movie in your head, that's what separates an instrumental album from a beat tape.

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Before saying, 'This track is so dope; it's gonna go on the album,' I like to take some time away from it and see how I feel about it in a few months. If it's gonna get released, I gotta love it - it's gonna have my name on it forever.

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It's the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who's always trying to figure out why he is doing music and trying to understand and make sense of his instrument in a world which deals with rigid instruction.

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Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don't know where to go to really hear it. Brainfeeder gives me a platform to put out people like Kamasi Washington or Austin Peralta.

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I love Snoop - I grew up with his music - but I never thought for a second that we'd work together.

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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 either.

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I always feel like the past informs my present musically.

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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 it's not the same, it's not the kind of place where they embrace you for being a weirdo. You were just left alone with your Nintendo, and that was my life.

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

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Takashi Miike is definitely one of my top five, you know?

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I just understand that I'm supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit instead of being part of the same sound as everyone else.

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I feel like my music has a reputation for being pretty serious or whatnot, but I like having fun.

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I like comedy.

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I'm a silly guy.

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I've been working with Thundercat forever.

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My music divides people!

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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 - it's very loop-style.

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Childish Gambino - him and I are the same age, and I really like him.

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I like boring. Boring is cool.

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I'm the kind of person who needs to be challenged all the time. I need my brain to go, or else I just end up playing video games all day, you know? That's cool too, I guess, at times.

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