Alexis Taylor Quotes

I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.

Alexis Taylor

• Playing
• Keeping
• CDs

To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

Alexis Taylor

• Years
• Audience
• Smaller

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

Alexis Taylor

• Things
• Comic
• Accidental

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

Alexis Taylor

• Sound
• Cheap
• Copied

There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.

Alexis Taylor

• Reality
• Audience
• Happen

I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.

Alexis Taylor

• Music
• Person
• Away

I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.

Alexis Taylor

• Sound
• Format
• Compressed

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

Alexis Taylor

• Audience
• Need
• Record

If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch on to, that's great.

Alexis Taylor

• Sound
• Melody
• Catch

In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.

Alexis Taylor

• Feel
• Recording
• Contribute