J Electronica Quotes & Sayings

Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains
Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims
The will is much stronger than the flesh
And it only gets stronger when you going through duress
Imagination is the factory that makes legends
Close your eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans — Jay Electronica

I am not great in a crowd. I don't see a lot of rock shows because sometimes I am afraid I won't get out. I used to squeeze my little self into the scrum and jump around and cause tiny trouble. Now I just want to sit down and have someone perform my five favorite songs while I eat a light dinner and receive a simultaneous pedicure. Is there some kind of awesome indie/alt/hip-hop/electronica music tour that can do that? — Amy Poehler

Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life. — Dean Wareham

The radio is just a stereo like a house ain't a home. — Jay Electronica

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool. — Jim Coleman

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. — Bill Laswell

I feel like people are starting to come around and embrace rock. Because I guess they're getting sick of the stale sounds of certain electronica. They kind of get really bored with the fact that it's so self-indulgent. — Jason Reece

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction. — Jay Electronica

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too. — Kate Fleetwood

Alyosha-Bob and I have an interesting hobby that we indulge whenever possible. We think of ourselves as The Gentlemen Who Like To Rap. Our oeuvre stretches from the old school jams of Ice Cube, Ice-T, and Public Enemy to the sensuous contemporary rhythyms of ghetto tech, a hybrid of Miami bass, Chicago ghetto tracks, and Detroit electronica. The modern reader may be familiar with 'Ass-N-Titties' by DJ Assault, perhaps the seminal work of the genre — Gary Shteyngart

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. — Douglas Rushkoff

What isn't on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.) — Michele Norris

I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal. — Madonna Ciccone

Life is like a dice game; one roll could land you in jail, or cuttin' cake, blowin' kisses in the rice game. — Jay Electronica

My pen is an artery, my heart is a fountain — Jay Electronica

My feet might fail me, my heart might ail me,
The synagogues of Satan might accuse or jail me,
Strip, crown, nail me, brimstone hail me ...
They might defeat the flesh but they could never ever kill me.
They might feel the music but could never ever feel me. — Jay Electronica

For me, my life is a journey. — Jay Electronica

How much better life must have been for jealous drunks before emails and texts and mobile phones, before all this electronica and the traces it leaves. — Paula Hawkins

The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king! — Jay Electronica

I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never ... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just ... I don't know. — Carol Friedman

I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys. — Anushka Sharma

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores. — Paul Wardingham

All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason. — Jay Electronica

People will less and less need to put an identity on genres, such as "hip hop," "electronica" and so forth. That's what I try to do with Princess Superstar. Why should a musician be limited to only one form or one genre of music? And so, I think the same will hold true for the whole male/female categorization. — Princess Superstar

I love listening to old school stuff. I listen to some new cats out here, but I'm really into, like, Tech N9ne and his clique; I really like Eminem and those guys - cats that got real flow: I really connect with that. But I do love rock. I love a lot of electronica because I love programming synthesizers. — Sir Mix-a-Lot

Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops — Jay Electronica

Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That man's pen and legacy is without question. — Jay Electronica

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith ... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody. — Emmy Rossum

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one — Jay Electronica

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer. — Greg Ginn