Ansel Elgort Quotes

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

Midi is my hobby.

The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

It's great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

I have a method of working on music: I'll get up in the morning and throw down some drums on my drum machine, and then I'll come back later and try to pop off rhythms to it.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

My first bit of gear was a Roland JV-1010 sound module. I used to hammer the hell out of that.

When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.

There is nothing wrong in electronic music or synthesised music.

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

I was doing music tech as a subject and learned how to use Logic Pro and that's when I kind of had a platform to put my ideas on. It all just went from there.

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.