“I try and construct the music in a way that stuff that doesn't make se...” — Alex G Quote

I try and construct the music in a way that stuff that doesn't make sense on the first listen will make sense on like the fifth listen. And then there's other stuff that will make more sense that you didn't hear before on the next listen.

I am always thinking of how the part I am playing will contribute to the atmosphere of the song and not how the part stands on its own.

None of my family members are particularly musical except for my older brother. He has Asperger's and perfect pitch.

If I'm making a chord progression on guitar, and I like it, but the next day when I play, and it doesn't make me feel anything, I just scratch it, or I'll rework it till I have this thing that's consistently putting me in a spot, you know? It's not a method that I'm even conscious of.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

I think that, in America, even though race is a social construct, I mean, we say this in theory, but I think a lot of people don't believe that it really is. And so it's still a very racialized society.

Rappers should sit down and construct quality lines.

We are in a phase of democratization. We are constructing a democracy. We cannot construct a democracy with irritants.