Kieran Hebden Quotes & Sayings

The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands. — Kieran Hebden

People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise. — Kieran Hebden

I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music. — Kieran Hebden

It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good album that felt like it had a point. — Kieran Hebden

Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You can do something really exciting and you don't need any record companies. The way I do everything comes from that, the impact of those two things. — Kieran Hebden

When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork. — Kieran Hebden

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz. — Kieran Hebden

If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it. — Kieran Hebden

People ask me about all sorts of sounds. There's a sound of a screeching toy or a rubber duck and everybody asks me about that, but it was an absolutely random thing, just a cool sound. — Kieran Hebden

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience. — Kieran Hebden

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out. — Kieran Hebden

With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages. — Kieran Hebden

When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time. — Kieran Hebden

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey. — Kieran Hebden

I feel like there's a young generation of producers who are taking inspiration from dubstep but trying to push it in other directions. — Kieran Hebden

I worked on the tracks so they sounded as good as possible in there ... I wanted to make something that was for the night. — Kieran Hebden