Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

Oneohtrix Point Never

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 25, 1982

While I absolutely love a great drummer and get tunnel vision listening to drums at a show, a lot of the time I feel like drum machine-driven music tethers you to a genre.

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I don't like straightforward drum sounds and hate snares; can't stand them.

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If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.

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There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

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The films of Gregg Araki may not be classified as horror, but they have been known to horrify viewers.

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I love the idea that you develop a relationship over time that yields new projects and more creative freedom and trust.

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I would love to perform in an Amangiri hotel somewhere. Just off to the side like a piano man, while people drink and eat.

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Yeah, I tend to tinker with things that I love. It's habitual.

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Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting challenge from the score perspective, to enhance that tension without being noticed, just like those archetypes.

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That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

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There's an arrogance of assuming that we can interpret the past - that we've left the right footnotes, that we're doing the right reclamation projects, that we're not overcorrecting. Actually, we have no idea where we're going. It's this Tower of Babel type scenario.

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Anything that's too self-assured just makes me nervous.

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I can't tell you how much more important watching 'Hellraiser' is to my music than listening to a Milton Babbitt piece or something.

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Far Behind' is a single from Candlebox's self-titled record from 1993. The record came out on Madonna's Maverick imprint and went quadruple platinum, regardless of how much it sucked.

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My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example of Candlebox and their paradoxical influence on culture.

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I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

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All of those 10cc 'Not in Love'-type synthetic choir sounds on 'Replica' are all from the Omnisphere. We used a lot of that.

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