There was a time when my taste in music was mainstream, for example - people like Jimi Hendrix - who I really based a lot of my inspiration on, was t…

- Gordon Raphael

I don't get a lot of big offers. Never have in my career. For some reason, record labels don't call me, famous bands don't call me, only kids in rock…

- Gordon Raphael

When I hear music which is really exciting, I get really excited, and when I hear music which is really boring, I get really upset. I get angry.

- Gordon Raphael

I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I really like Chopin piano music. I…

- Gordon Raphael

Music is very personal. It is not objective. We're not talking about how tight they were. How famous they are. How rich they are. For me it's like fo…

- Gordon Raphael

I don't want to hear from a band that pretty much sounds like another band. Oh I've heared this riff before, or I've heared these words that everyone…

- Gordon Raphael

I go shopping for jeans, and they're playing shitty music in the store, I just leave. I can't be around music that I hate.

- Gordon Raphael

The fact that I don't get big offers, it means that I don't refuse them. And I say no occasionally to bands, if I find them not very interesting to m…

- Gordon Raphael

The music I make is very underground-sounding, it doesn't sound like it goes into the charts. It doesn't sound like it's trying to fit into today's s…

- Gordon Raphael