Jon Hopkins Quotes

Jon Hopkins

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 15, 1979

To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention.

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I don't believe in getting a lot of new gear all the time, so I get very deeply into one instrument and use it for many years.

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No, I'm a quite big believer in not being in the studio if I don't feel like being in there.

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The first thing I remember hearing was just the dance music that was in the charts when I was growing up. I don't remember many of the names of specific tracks - they were just kind of early acid house things.

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I was always fascinated particularly with synths: how they looked and stuff that when you're a kid you're like this is the most incredible thing in the world just to play.

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I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a couple of words. It's the difficult part when you're writing things that are basically abstract.

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What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.

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When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your setup and what you're listening to. Nothing more.

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I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.

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I'm a massive catastrophist by nature.

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For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.

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I'm not keen on interfering with nature; I don't want to edit my genome.

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I love starting a track in one place and not knowing where it's going to end up.

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Whenever I've improved, gone up a level in sound-making, it's been because I've done an album.

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Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

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When you sit there doing a film score for three months there's no time to experiment.

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I would never advocate anyone doing anything without educating themselves and finding out exactly what they're in for.

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As a teenager, you don't really have restraint.

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I do believe there's a human right to experiment with your consciousness, as long as you're harming no one else.

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Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.

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