“I was sort of disappointed with the way synthesizers have bullied music into a kind of cold place. So much of the music that’s being made at the moment is very earnest. It doesn’t have that quality of necessity that music used to have; it’s become style over content. So in a natural progression, I just went back to the kinds of music that really excited me when I started. I was listening to people like Buddy Guy, Red Prysock, Alan Freed big bands. Stuff like that has such a dynamic, enthusiastic quality; it’s the enthusiasm that I actually was looking for.”
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David Bowie on developing the sound for the album Let’s Dance. (via ennish)