Justin Broadrick Quotes

I feel somewhat privileged because I often feel very sorry for kids. I often feel very sorry for 20-year-olds and teens who grew up with the internet and have grown up completely connected because, for me, people like me know what it was to struggle, but it wasn’t a struggle. It was great! It was fantastic. The thrill of the hunt.

Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I’m sure we’re all facing the same level of extinction.

I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it’s easy to get up one’s own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline.

What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.

I always fear dogma. I don’t like anything that’s dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

What I like about electronic music is you don’t really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.

Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being ‘progressive’.

I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it’s that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

I’ve never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

Inspiration has to be natural for me, not so considered, I am not saying that is right or wrong, it’s simply what works for me.