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James Blake [1979-0] American

Rank: 106
Athlete, Singer-songwriter

James Blake Litherland, known as James Blake, is an English singer, songwriter, musician and producer from London. He first received recognition in 2010 for a trio of dubstep-influenced EPs, and the following year his self-titled debut album was released in the United Kingdom to critical praise.

Design, Learning, Music, Space

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We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.	Music, Space	101
Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.	Design	102
I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.	Learning	103
I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.		104
The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.		105
I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really.		106
My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.		107
I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens.		108
If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.		109
It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.		110
At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.		111
I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.		112
I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.		113
I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.		114
A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.		115
In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.		116
The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.		117
I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.		118

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