Justin Chancellor Quotes

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.

I like all kinds of music artists like Akon. I even listen to Lady Gaga.

I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.

My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

I think it would be different to work with a guy like Kanye West or Jay-Z, those guys are so phenomenal, but just to work with a rapper, I don't think is really my thing. I really like songs, like true songs. Like indie songs.

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.