Broadrick V Quotes & Sayings

I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!" — Justin Broadrick

I'm amazed and disheartened at how quickly adolescents lose their innocence nowadays. Everyone is in such a rush to give themselves over to someone physically without truly knowing the person to whom they are entrusting with their body and emotions — Karen Amanda Hooper

What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture. — Justin Broadrick

Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Inspiration has to be natural for me, not so considered, I am not saying that is right or wrong, it's simply what works for me. — Justin Broadrick

There's always gonna be people saying they were so much better back in the day. — Justin Broadrick

I'd always loved hip-hop. — Justin Broadrick

If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. — Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid. — Justin Broadrick

I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating. — Justin Broadrick

It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed. — Annie Lennox

I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me. — Scott Adams

Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it. — Joel Surnow

I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline. — Justin Broadrick

I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves. — Justin Broadrick

Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction. — Justin Broadrick

I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do feel Godflesh is a protest music of sorts. That was the background that I came from. — Justin Broadrick

I've recently noticed how often I find my characters on a tropical beach during some part of many of my stories. There's something very sensuous about the warm water, the sounds of the palm leaves rustling in the breeze, the lack of clothing and the heat of the sun against bare skin that's very appealing and definitely puts me in a mood to fantasise. — Annette Broadrick

Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic. — Justin Broadrick

Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on "Christbait Rising" which Broadrick was quoted as saying, "It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim". — Justin Broadrick

I feel somewhat privileged because I often feel very sorry for kids. I often feel very sorry for 20-year-olds and teens who grew up with the internet and have grown up completely connected because, for me, people like me know what it was to struggle, but it wasn't a struggle. It was great! It was fantastic. The thrill of the hunt. — Justin Broadrick

I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process. — Justin Broadrick

Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess. — Justin Broadrick

I always felt at odds, politically, with people, and with any group of people that congregate and declare themselves as some sort of movement. It's usually motivated by wishing to dominate other people. — Justin Broadrick

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band. — Justin Broadrick

I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism. — Justin Broadrick

What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be. — Justin Broadrick

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion. — Justin Broadrick

As a label I don't care about piracy. I want the music that we [my band] love to be heard by as many people as possible. The more people like the music we put out, the better the label and artists will do. If anyone genuinely likes what we do they will find us, buy our vinyl or come to see the artists play live. — Justin Broadrick

True salvation is wholly a work of God. It is said to be both a finished work and a gift, and, therefore, it lays no obligation upon the saved one to complete it himself, or to make after payments of service for it. — Lewis Sperry Chafer

How?" I had seen it with my own eyes, but I still didn't believe it. Then something struck me. "Take off your shirt!"
"I'm not that kind of guy!" He frowned thoughtfully. "On second thought, why not?"
I blushed angrily and looked at Raquel. "What is he? I don't see anything!"
"He's not 'anything'.Just a talented boy."
"Then how did he make a door? How did he get through the Paths?"
"Wait,so am I allowed to put my shirt back on? Or did you want me to remove my pants,too?"
Lend and I joined forces in a dark glare. "Only if you want me to vomit," I snapped. — Kiersten White

Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'. — Justin Broadrick