43 Jon Hopkins Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jon Hopkins

English Musician

Born: Aug 15, 1979

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As a teenager, you don't really have restraint. Jon Hopkins

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Meditation gives you back one or two sleep cycles every time you do it. Do it every day and it goes quite a long way towards helping insomnia. Jon Hopkins

Sometimes I think elements of 'Open Eye Signal' are better live. I do this really crazy stuff at the end, but I don't know if it'd translate well into recording. It would probably sound a bit too extreme. Jon Hopkins

I really don't use that much stuff. I think it's good to know a few pieces of equipment very well, rather than learn new ones every time. I think it distracts from the writing process. Jon Hopkins

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I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that. Jon Hopkins

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I love that tension between machine sounds and organic sounds, and also the contrast between abrasive sounds and soft sounds. Jon Hopkins

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It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us. Jon Hopkins

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I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out. Jon Hopkins

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When I did 'Immunity,' even though I did a film score at the beginning and also at the end, I was left uninterrupted during the middle bit. I got a good year of just writing and focusing. That, to me, is when I make the best stuff. Jon Hopkins

It sounds a bit pretentious, but I'm never really conscious of what I'm doing musically. Jon Hopkins

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I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a couple of words. It's the difficult part when you're writing things that are basically abstract. Jon Hopkins