American - Musician | December 17, 1981 -
What genres are good for is being like, 'Here are the parameters. Here's something about the way it's going to make you feel. And here's something about the subject matter.'
David Longstreth
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I got a little baby grand piano off Craigslist for, like, $500. It's a beautiful instrument that you hear on a bunch of the songs. That's that piano on 'Keep Your Name' and 'Work Together' and 'Little Bubble.'
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Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.
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I do think that one of the best effects the Internet has had on music is that it's allowed these false walls between different music communities to vaporize. We can see that this is a big, complex, interconnected web.
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There's been no two Dirty Projectors records that have had the same cast of characters every time.
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The more songs I've written, the more I've grown interested in telling a story. When I first began, I had this list of opaque phrases where you can make of it what you want.
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What music can do so well is tell the truth in a subjective way.
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As far as working with Kanye and Solange, that was amazing. After 'Swing Lo Magellan', I needed a change. Getting to work in that capacity, writing for other people and working for other people as a writer and as a person who's not representing it as the front person or whatever - it's such a different perspective you can get.
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Kanye has this discursive way of working, getting input from a range of people, that I thought was really cool.
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I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to stay locked in that mentality.
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Working as a producer, an arranger, and, in some cases, as a writer for some other people gave me a super different perspective.
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I love 808s - not only the Auto-Tune but just ,in general, the embrace of a kind of digital style of working.
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