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• ‟ Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

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• ‟ Music is like cooking for me: you mix the ingredients together in one big pan and see how they end up. Through experimenting, you find what you really like and stick with it.

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• ‟ AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.

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• ‟ Really, I was brought up with music as a second language. My mother was extremely encouraging of the sensitivities of my brain. It was this sense of curiosity but never pressure.

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• ‟ I'm a firm believer that embracing the imperfections of making music is so much of what makes something groove. Getting rid of these imperfections runs the risk of removing a lot of the magic that makes this music really special, and diminishes music's ability to connect with us as human beings. We are all imperfect, after all.

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• ‟ For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.

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• ‟ The Proms are everything life is all about: people coming together, and joy and music and celebration and togetherness.

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• ‟ I think of what I do for work as playing/jamming. Music for me is so much fun so I don't take my work very seriously in terms of not being humorous, but I take it absolutely seriously in terms of taking the time to make it as rich and glorious as possible.

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• ‟ The thing with music education is that it is good at teaching technique, but not texture. You only learn about that from listening to music and experimenting on your own.

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• ‟ I was given this music programme called Cubase, one of the first multi-layering programmes, when I was seven, and I graduated to Logica at 11, and that became my primary instrument.

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• ‟ You can't make music on your own for your whole life.

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• ‟ It's a really interesting situation, because when you make music at home all the energy goes into the process, and touring's all about the energy going outward. I had to learn how to do that transition, but once I figured that out it's so much fun.

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• ‟ Music is one whole force. And I think the Proms have always represented very clearly that music is a universal language, one that everyone can speak. I've just followed my goosebumps in every direction and have found a recipe for what my music feels and sounds like.

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• ‟ I enjoy exploring music so much.

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• ‟ I'm one of those people that's listened to so much music, I feel like I've soaked it all and not rejected anything, so it's all present there when I'm in my inventing room.

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• ‟ Djesse,' essentially, is this spirit. It's this sort of character, very much with some childlike energy, which permeates all of this music... The first album represents kind of pre-dawn, to that moment at the end of the morning when everything's very much alive.

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• ‟ I jumped into a world of musical learning that was very much led by myself and then I drew from the music that was all around me.

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• ‟ A lot of the music that I really love, and a lot of my favourite music and a lot of my favourite things and a lot of my favourite people, these can be experienced on many levels.

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• ‟ In my experience, my music has drawn people of all ages, which is a real wonderful thing. And at my gigs you get everyone from six year olds to 90 year olds. And I find that really quite moving, actually.

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