100 Quotes by Bonobo

I record a lot of stuff on my phone when I'm out and about and regularly use the recordings in my tracks.

I often use a return channel to get some shape out of the bass. It's a good way to split the frequencies of the bass so that the sub bass is clean and in mono and the higher end of the bass sound can be filtered off - have it on an audio channel and that's where you can use effects.

I don't make personality-driven music. Personality stagnates, people become tired of it. When it is purely about the music, that is what gives it longevity.

My parents and two sisters were great musicians but my family's approach to music was always way more academic than mine. They were virtuoso players. But they were all impressed that I could sit down at a piano and find a melody. We had a different approach, we had mutual envy.

When I was 16 I was in a neo hardcore band called Finger Charge. I played the drums with my shirt off.

When you're traveling, it's easy to ignore your situation. But once the dust settles, it catches up with you.

New York is great in your twenties.

I never used to be able to work on the road, I was always strictly in the studio. But not everything's gotten smaller - I have Ableton on the laptop now and a sample library, which means I can use that downtime to pour it into the music.

It's one of those things that always astounds me, when I make a record and it connects with people.