7 Quotes by Colin Stetson

There are mics inside the instrument, a contact mic on my throat, and countless mics clustered around the air of the horn and throughout the room. I wanted to make something that was specific to the medium of recording.

Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

I practice yoga and breathing daily along with all the exercises on the instrument. I’m getting more and more monastic about it, especially when I’m on tour, because I’m making songs that are harder to perform all the time. So I no longer smoke and I drink a lot less on tour.

I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film – something that explicitly states its own world.

I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.

It’s important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine the premise of how I go about creating things physically, with the instrument.