Alexis Taylor Quotes

There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.

Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.

I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.

I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.

That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.