John Talabot quotes

My music is not really complicated. It's not really complicated and it's not - I wouldn't say simple - but it's not too, like, looking forward. So actually, like, the sound I have now, maybe it's a little bit better than the one I had, or whatever, but I don't feel uncomfortable yet with my music, you know?
-- John Talabot

#Simple #Looking Forward #Complicated

I really like to know people from a lot of places. It's like the world is a really big city that you just keep meeting other people that you've met in different cities before. It's quite crazy, but it's quite nice.
-- John Talabot

#Crazy #Nice #People

You always have your complaints about your own music. I never finish a track because I decided to finish. It's like, I just finish a track because I'm tired of it, you know? So you could be finishing songs forever, I think, if you are quite a perfectionist.
-- John Talabot

#Song #Tired #Thinking

Sometimes when you write something, you have that day when you start writing and you feel really good, and you start changing it. At the end, it lost the essence. It lost the first idea, the energy that it had, it's going down after every change. And at the end it's something soft and too much rewritten or too much rebuilt that doesn't have the same energy as the beginning. So, I like the first takes because of that, you know. It has that first energy that sometimes it's difficult to recreate.
-- John Talabot

#Writing #Energy #Sometimes

Every city is different for playing, actually. That's one of the hardest things: to play abroad. Because sometimes you know your city and your audience and you know what to play and what people will dance to. And later, you go to a place and you think this thing will work and you start playing and it doesn't work, and you have to be able to go to another side just to try to find what people like or whatever, or, like, try to make people dance as they are more used to. I don't know, it's quite strange - people dance in different parts of Europe in a different way.
-- John Talabot

#Thinking #People #Trying

Sometimes I start doing the remix and I just can't find anything good, so I just decline after trying. And I never give a remix if I don't like it. That makes some people angry, but I'm not a production house making remixes, and I try to do them in an artistic way, not trying to repeat myself.
-- John Talabot

#People #Giving #House

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

I know how hard it will be to follow the best manager ever, but the opportunity to manage Manchester United isn't something that comes around very often and I'm really looking forward to taking up the post next season.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.