Most of the creative industries have been deskilled by these really powerful ideologies of punk in music and Warhol in the visual arts. I think it would be great for us collectively to ask whether it’s had a negative or positive effect in contributing imaginative stuff to our culture. David Longstreth Read Quote
I’m from the East Coast; I think about things dialectically sometimes – in other words, antagonistically. The rhythms that I think of are polyrhythmic, bouncy, loping. The way that I want to approach that is to get, like, a flat-footed Connecticut hard-core drummer to play these bouncy, loping polyrhythms. David Longstreth Read Quote
What genres are good for is being like, ‘Here are the parameters. Here’s something about the way it’s going to make you feel. And here’s something about the subject matter.’ David Longstreth Read Quote
When we’re talking about friendships, generosity and fairness and equanimity and sharing and all those things are super-important to me. David Longstreth Read Quote
Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it’s the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer. David Longstreth Read Quote
Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one – they belong to one another. David Longstreth Read Quote
With ‘Stillness’, I don’t think I appreciated how very codified all the different genres were in radio formats and the various constituencies of the culture. But music is music, too. David Longstreth Read Quote
I love 808s – not only the Auto-Tune but just ,in general, the embrace of a kind of digital style of working. David Longstreth Read Quote
The people I really admire, like William Blake and John Coltrane and Richard Wagner, had these ridiculously full universes that took their entire lives to describe. David Longstreth Read Quote
