Casey Spooner Quotes:

It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.

Topics: War, Years, Three

I think a lot of people misinterpret what I'm doing because they think of it as just a joke or they think of it as disposable.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Jokes, Disposable

If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: Confusion, Confusing, Difficult

We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art is about limiting access to the product to create value, and entertainment is about dispersing it. We've put ourselves in a position where, if we reach conceptual perfection, it's career suicide.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Suicide, Art, Perfection

If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

Topics: People, Challenges, Trying

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: Twelve, Want, Lasts

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: Diversity, Interesting, Hip Hop

It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: Too Much, Certain, Feels

People would lambaste me or attack me, and I'd be like, "I'm being honest! I'm the one person that's being honest and sincere about what I'm doing." The rest of the world doesn't want to admit the fakery of entertainment on TV, but I love the fake. I think fake is beautiful.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: Beautiful, Thinking, People

The things I'm making and doing I really like and think are interesting; I'm drawn to them.

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Topics: Thinking, Interesting

I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.

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Topics: Believe, Guitar, People

On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: Believe, Cutting, Artist

I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.

Topics: People, Different, Way

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: People, Certain, Positive Things