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Oneohtrix Point Never, is quoted 88 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Aesthetic, Tim, Stimulation and Drum.

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I really love Glasgow. It reminds me of Boston in parts.

I've made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.

It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound.

Yeah, I tend to tinker with things that I love. It's habitual.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible.

No one is mediating aesthetic choices on an OPN album other than myself.

I love seeing Tim Hecker perform because the experience truly shakes me.

I basically am always chasing this super enhanced stimulation from music.

I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock.

I don't like straightforward drum sounds and hate snares; can't stand them.

I love Ableton's vocoder and Operator for basic side subs and general low-end.

I don't think I could make a good film, but I could definitely score a good film.

I'm not much of a crier, actually. You know, I tend to cry and get sappy on planes.

I'm like soft Ray Manzarek. I think of the keyboard as almost like a bass or a lead.

I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.

I have a hard time making a linear-idea song, because that's not the way my thoughts work.

There would not be Skaters or Emeralds or any of these bands if it weren't for Double Leopards.

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.

The films of Gregg Araki may not be classified as horror, but they have been known to horrify viewers.

I was never totally sold on this idea that I'm just a musician. I wanted to be the Tim Burton of music.

I'm predisposed to believe we live in a complicated, enmeshed reality. There's no authentic or organic.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.

If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.

I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film scores.

Before puberty, it seems like I was more or less smiling a lot. I was really outgoing and wanted to have a happy life.

I love the idea that you develop a relationship over time that yields new projects and more creative freedom and trust.

I'm super into dudes like Megazord, Jon Rafman, Rasmus Emanuel Svensson, Tabor Robak, and Michael Willis to name a few.

I would love to perform in an Amangiri hotel somewhere. Just off to the side like a piano man, while people drink and eat.

That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

All of those 10cc 'Not in Love'-type synthetic choir sounds on 'Replica' are all from the Omnisphere. We used a lot of that.

I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.

I can't tell you how much more important watching 'Hellraiser' is to my music than listening to a Milton Babbitt piece or something.

The promotional cycle's this staging area for failure. I hate it! Why bother when everyone's either gonna steal the album or copy it?

I need my 'art work' or 'entertainment work' or whatever to have empathy for or connection to the way I experience the world as a person.

O.P.N. has always been about reaching for some kind of liminal state in which opposing aesthetic forces become entangled and confused and equal.

My friend and I were in a band together and we used to always refer it it as 'floor-core,' meaning that we would sit on the floor and play stuff.

Games isn't really pop music, and neither is OPN. Both are part of the same ecosystem and both deal with exploring the undercurrents of pop music.

You look at somebody like Thurston Moore. Is he a noise dude? A punky dude? Is he a free jazz dude? He's a stimulation chaser, and I relate to that.

John Martin was a great, complex folk singer, and later on, his music became more and more melancholic as he went through a separation with his wife.

Nothing's ever easy about composing for other people's projects, but I like it. I've been lucky to have worked with adventurous directors who trust me.

Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.

I was perpetually this B-minus kid vacillating between eagerness and depression. I wasn't a bad kid, and I definitely wasn't aggressive, but I was a sad kid.

That's a problem I have a lot of the time with humor in music, where it just kind of stops at the obvious level of: 'Hey, isn't it something that's in bad taste?'

The way I think about things or hear things in my head is actually much closer to acoustic instruments. I don't have weird synthesized fantasy of music in my head.

When people talk about how parameters can generate really good work, there's no better example than working within a genre in film. That's like the ultimate parameter.

While I absolutely love a great drummer and get tunnel vision listening to drums at a show, a lot of the time I feel like drum machine-driven music tethers you to a genre.

I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack the code of technology and bring forth a future techno utopia.

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