Eric San Quotations

I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.

Eventually it just got really crazy. Less and less oxygen in the apartment.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.

Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power.

I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.

Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

I think that for a long time it scratching was sort of frowned upon within music because people didn't understand that there was a craft involved.

It'd be interesting if you had to find a record for everything you had to say. But I think that whole talking code thing is great.

It's something I've been working on for about two years and I just finished doing the inking about three days ago, so I'm pretty excited.