Flume Quotes
I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
-
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
-
Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
-
Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
-
I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
-
I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
-
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
-
My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
-
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
-
I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
-
I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
-
As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
-
I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
-
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
-
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
-
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
-
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.
-
Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings. So our fans inspire us and give us a direction to go as musicians. And of course, their love and support keeps us going.
-
You want your kids to feel happy and good about themselves. The rest they'll work out on their own. You never know what your kids will be drawn to.
-
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
-
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.
-
I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
