Tom Jenkinson Quotes

Tom Jenkinson

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 30, 1974

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

Tom Jenkinson

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

Tom Jenkinson

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Tom Jenkinson

There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.

Tom Jenkinson

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

Tom Jenkinson

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.

Tom Jenkinson

Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.

Tom Jenkinson

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

Tom Jenkinson

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

Tom Jenkinson

I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.

Tom Jenkinson

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

Tom Jenkinson

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.

Tom Jenkinson

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

Tom Jenkinson

I'm basically a musician.

Tom Jenkinson

I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.

Tom Jenkinson

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

Tom Jenkinson

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

Tom Jenkinson

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

Tom Jenkinson

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

Tom Jenkinson