100 Quotes by Flying Lotus

Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.

I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it.

Before I started Brainfeeder, there were rumblings in our own circle about creating a label for us all. Then I started to see all these other ones from Europe try to capitalise on the scene. It didn't make sense to me that there were all these people who were trying to build on something that was in our backyard.

When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that only I can make - it feels good. It's nice when you can find a sound that only you can make. No one else can make 'Cosmogramma.' No one else can make 'Until the Quiet Comes.'

There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.

People are not able to just make music anymore; we have to do things that don't necessarily make the art any better. But that's just how it is.

I remember Usher came up to me at Coachella once, and it's like, 'Are you sure you're talking to the right person? How do you even know what I look like? You're not supposed to know who I am.'

I work a lot.

I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.