I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic. Yami Gautam Read Quote
I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music. Yami Gautam Read Quote
I love Canada. It’s a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. Yami Gautam Read Quote
I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. Yami Gautam Read Quote
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally – certainly with my secular background – the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. Yami Gautam Read Quote
Fanatics do not have faith – they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. Yami Gautam Read Quote
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader’s disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don’t have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. Yami Gautam Read Quote
Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, ‘OK, it’s the first of recording this album.’ I like to avoid that. Yami Gautam Read Quote
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. Yami Gautam Read Quote
I can’t imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them. Yami Gautam Read Quote
