Porter Robinson Quotes :
So, the concept was a single-stage festival, and I open and close the festival to encourage people to stay for all of the other artists.
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An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.
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For me, the early 2000s stood for this vast, magical, electronic cyber realm – a time when the internet was so infinite, mysterious, and under-explored.
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But to me, ‘Worlds’ is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.
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I’m not a huge movie buff and I don’t watch that much television, but I’ve spent most of my life playing video games of one kind or another.
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I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They’re so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.
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I wanted ‘Second Sky’ to be my way of recommending truly good music to my audience that I think is worthy of their time.
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There’s so many things that can go wrong, and if I’m merely playing and not hosting a festival, none of those things reflect on me.
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I was still on track to go UNC at Chapel Hill, I had no plans to be a musician. It wasn’t even a goal of mine. Then I had this song that blew up and went viral and suddenly I found myself playing shows and having this music career.
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I wanted to have a grander vision, something that I felt like I was really fighting for and I wanted to have a real idea and be authentic.
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I wanted what I was doing to be really true to me and my tastes. That’s what ‘Worlds’ was, me taking a break from what I was doing and doing something that was honest, authentic and real.
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I think that my biggest influences are electronic acts. Daft Punk is probably my number 1, then Kanye West would be number 2 after that.
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My relatonshp wth my brothers… t’s almost werd. We’ve never fought, we fnsh each other’s sentences, but not n a creepy way. We talk about the thngs that we love and share musc wth each other.
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I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn’t expect anybody to catch all the details of what I’m doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.
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The one thing you can’t control is what comes after what you release.
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Electronic music was this super cool thing to me my whole life.
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I was trying to write new music, but there was nothing I was reacting against. It turned out ‘Worlds’ itself became something for me to to resist.
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My most successful song was ‘Language’ and thnk partly because t’s a nce, dancey record, but ‘ll see people cry n the audence to that song, and that’s so much more nterestng to me than makng someone just jump up and down.
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And ‘m nterested n wrtng musc that takes rsks. My pont s that maybe the term EDM s pnned on me and my buddes, but maybe t’ll be less so f experment.
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thnk t’s mportant to form a connecton wth an audence to a pont, but also feel lke there’s an nstructve element to what you’re dong. And thnk t’s necessary to challenge people.
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spend a good deal of tme dong, for anxety what’s known as exposure therapy where bascally you’re supposed to confront thngs that cause you anxety and learn to tolerate. t’s all about learnng to tolerate dscomfort rather that avodng anythng that mght make you feel uncomfortable.
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Virtual Self’ combines a lot of unlike elements – trance, jungle, slowed-down breakbeats.
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‘m never gong to stop wrtng musc as Porter Robnson and see ‘Vrtual Self’ as more of a tangent.
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‘m releasng more musc as Vrtual Self, ‘m defntely gong to be tourng Vrtual Self.
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