In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.
When I listen to those tapes now, the real cocaine shows; there's just nothing special about their content.
Our aim was to be playable on both AM and FM radio - something no one had done in a while.
I play vinyl and CDs. Playing vinyl is the best sound quality you can get playing music loudly, so that's the main reason I do that.
The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.
I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
I think some songs are better on vinyl.
If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.
Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.
Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.
But I can't remember who is in my CD player now.
Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.
I hate hearing my voice on the radio.
I use iPod all the time, almost every day. It's great.
It was really weird when I heard my voice coming out of a fish.
All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.
I never go anywhere without my iPod.
I still use my iPod all the time.
Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.
I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.
