A biography for Flying Lotushasn’t been written yet.
“I work a lot.”
“I'd love to work with Drake. I got Drake beats.”
“It's the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who's always trying to figure out why he is doing music and trying to understand and make sense of his instrument in a world which deals with rigid instruction.”
“I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it.”
“I love Dilla, and who knows where this beat thing would be without him.”
“Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don't know where to go to really hear it. Brainfeeder gives me a platform to put out people like Kamasi Washington or Austin Peralta.”
“When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that only I can make - it feels good. It's nice when you can find a sound that only you can make. No one else can make 'Cosmogramma.' No one else can make 'Until the Quiet Comes.'”
“I like to stay in the space of creativity, and I want to go towards that all the time.”
“A strong concept is the most important thing in creating a record. When you can listen to it and see a whole movie in your head, that's what separates an instrumental album from a beat tape.”
“Sometimes I feel evil!”
“I don't sit around listening to beats all day. There's so many producers, and so much of it is derivative.”
“I can't let darkness be what guides my decisions. I can't let that be what guides how I treat people. I can't let that be what drives my art, either.”
“I get homesick driving to the grocery store.”
“I like Philip Glass. I think he's made some really great contributions to his field. I love his style of playing - it's very loop-style.”
“I'm the kind of person who needs to be challenged all the time. I need my brain to go, or else I just end up playing video games all day, you know? That's cool too, I guess, at times.”
“For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel like that.”
“When it comes to art in general now, we've become so aware of our influence. We know when people are listening, when people are watching. It's not healthy. We start creating with that in the background of our mind. I think it's ruined my mind.”
“I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.”
“People are not able to just make music anymore; we have to do things that don't necessarily make the art any better. But that's just how it is.”