Tom Jenkinson Quotes

I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.
Tom Jenkinson

Work, Pleased, Absolutely

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.
Tom Jenkinson

Love, Feeling, Roots

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.
Tom Jenkinson

End, Idea, Making

Because there's so much stuff I don't release.
Tom Jenkinson

Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.
Tom Jenkinson

Music, Making, Head

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.
Tom Jenkinson

Between, Whole, Making

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.
Tom Jenkinson

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.
Tom Jenkinson

Music, Before, Everyone

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.
Tom Jenkinson

Find, Wanted, Group

I don't know how many records I'm selling.
Tom Jenkinson

Records, Selling

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.
Tom Jenkinson

Best, Yourself, Try

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.
Tom Jenkinson

Idea, Walk, Though

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.
Tom Jenkinson

End, Stuff, Cause

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.
Tom Jenkinson

Music, Existing, Complement

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.
Tom Jenkinson

Best, Forget, Find

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.
Tom Jenkinson

Using, Starting

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.
Tom Jenkinson

Music, Important, Challenge

I'm basically a musician.
Tom Jenkinson

Musician, Basically

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.
Tom Jenkinson

Music, Different, Purposes

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.
Tom Jenkinson

Nothing, Interested, Consider

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
Tom Jenkinson

Play, Guitar, Playing

I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.
Tom Jenkinson

Fan, Tune, Ninja

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.
Tom Jenkinson

Society, Important, Problems

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
Tom Jenkinson

Music, Time, Writing

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.
Tom Jenkinson

History, Live, Writing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: January 30, 1974

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