James Blake Quotes & Sayings

“My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.”

“Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.”

“The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.”

“I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really.”

“We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.”

“At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.”

“I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.”

“I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens.”

“If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.”

“I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.”