Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

Fashion is about change, don't you think?

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

I take sounds and change them into words.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

I think, for me, a way to really come up with new ideas and come up with new ways of writing music is to create a unique sound palette or soundscape for all the films I'm working on.

Well, I don't really use MIDI that much. But I do record audio around me a lot, and just layer it up and see what effect it has, without any aforethought.

I'm always changing my style.

Fortunately, Hollywood is open to change. It's just a question of how to go about doing it.

If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been making a piece of music for five hours and it sucks, I'll just throw it away.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.