Colin Stetson quotes

I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in a strange new place where all is bleak and all is lost. And it is this sense of isolation that permeates the whole album. I wanted to go into the balance between fear and transcendence.
-- Colin Stetson

#Talking #Balance #Albums

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

#Albums #World #Want

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.
-- Colin Stetson

#Song #Yoga #Exercise

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.
-- Colin Stetson

#Creating #Important #Creation

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

#People #Appreciate #Albums

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.
-- Colin Stetson

#Air #Rooms #Instruments

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.
-- Colin Stetson

#Wise #Practice #Want

I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where things are free to evolve unfettered by outside powers. That starts to reach into the underlying narrative, which is more of a literal story that I used as a construct to build songs around.
-- Colin Stetson

#Song #Thinking #Islands

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

#Rocks #Band #Phases

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.