Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

Rostam Batmanglij
Rostam Batmanglij
American Musician
Born: Nov 28, 1983
Like Me Music People Think You
It doesn't matter if you record with a microphone on a laptop or at a friend's house. Now it's more of a danger of things sounding too high-fi than sounding too low-fi. Rostam Batmanglij
You Matter Too Danger Record More House Friend Than Microphone Laptop Now Things
Sometimes the hangover provides inspiration. Rostam Batmanglij
Sometimes Inspiration Provides Hangover
I admire Brian Eno so much in how he seems to push the idea of less being more - his touch is to crack open a window and let the light in. Rostam Batmanglij
Light Admire Window Touch Seems More Push Open He Idea How His Crack Being Much Brian Less
The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements were written over those drums. Rostam Batmanglij
You First Lyrical Musical Those Beat Written Over Drums Came Were Get Original Elements Started
I always want to be somewhat uncomfortable. But at the same time I want to make music that you react to viscerally. Rostam Batmanglij
Music Time You Somewhat Uncomfortable React Make Always Same Same Time Want
I like that I can write my name in Persian, and it's a small unit, like a graphical unit. I feel the same way about my name in English, it's a graphical unit. Rostam Batmanglij
Way I Can I Feel About Small Write Feel Name Like Persian Same English Unit
I think that for a lot of us gay people, we do feel that pop is our music. We identify with it and its iconography, and that's been a tradition. Rostam Batmanglij
Music Gay People Think Our I Think Our Music Feel Identify Tradition Been Lot Iconography Us Pop
When I moved to New York, I remember thinking, ‘I'm never going to live anywhere else.' Rostam Batmanglij
Remember Live Thinking Else I Remember Never New York Going Moved New York Anywhere Anywhere Else
I made a quote-unquote 'album' for my senior project of high school. As soon as I finished making it I realized it wasn't the kind of music I wanted to make. Rostam Batmanglij
Music School Made Finished Project Kind High High School Soon Make Making Senior Wanted Realized Album
Well, I think that I have a complicated relationship with whiteness because oftentimes, I pass as white, and I recognize that. I would be disingenuous to pretend that I don't pass as white. Rostam Batmanglij
Relationship Complicated White Think I Think Recognize Pretend Would Would-Be Well Because Pass Oftentimes Disingenuous Whiteness
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