Mike Shinoda Quotes

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

On Christmas, when I was 13, my mom got me my first laptop. I downloaded it, FruityLoops, cause I had heard about it, and started messing around.

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

What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

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

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.