Audio Equipment Quotes

When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.

I'm an audiophile and have been collecting records for as long as I can remember.

I didn't even have a record player as a kid, so everything was down to radio.

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

I use Pearl Eliminator Pedals and I swear by them.

The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

I had been using a 4-track and a digital 8-track in the '90s, and it was this huge complicated thing. But GarageBand is right there.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.

People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

After my second No. 1, my record company, Warner Brothers, gave me a beautiful present - quite unique at the time - one of the very first Sony stereos which had speaker and radio included so I could record the radio and build up cassette tapes of music, gospel singing, adverts, evangelists.

I bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement.

I have speakers all over my house because music is such a huge, huge part of who I am.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

I love good, loud speakers.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

I started off as a recording engineer and a beatmaker. I was this skater kid that would skateboard to auditions, and then I would use the money I'd make and buy a bunch of equipment and make a bunch of beats. I still am that kid, just with a little more money.

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band.

I love tearing people's speakers up.

I don't have a TV, and I don't have a radio.

You always have to reset your volume for the venue you are in. Sometimes the tubes can have you scratching your head because they react differently at different volumes.