Top 18 Quotes by James Blake

If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.